Photo BlackLove.com By Nicole Pender “Love is patient, love is kind, love requires longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith.” Continue
By Tiffy Kink When it comes to dating, I am a huge fan of three things: Openness, comfort, and communication. Openness, meaning nothing is off limits to talk about, comfort, meaning both parties in the relationship never feel as though they will be ostracized for having opinions that differ from the other party, and communication, being able to have an…
By Nissa Francisco Over seven years ago I left Canada to live in London where my husband was pursuing a work opportunity in his career. The idea of moving to a different country to be with him was something I didn’t think twice about at the time. There was nothing more thrilling to me than having the opportunity to support…
Photo courtesy of Sabrina Nelson By Sabrina Nelson I was 21 when I got breast implants in 2002. My boyfriend at the time suggested I get them and even offered to pay for them if I lost 10 pounds and I was only 110 pounds at the time. He was 10 years older than me and had implanted an ideal…
By Onicia Muller In celebration of completing our freshman year, we’d decided to gather at a cohort’s apartment to watch one of the final World Cup matches. The weeks leading up to that fateful day were epic. I’d figured out how to save costs on books so I could splurge during Spring Break. Florida was magical: we got T-shirts with…
By Shanice-J-Douglas It has been about 10 years since the relationship that I once had with my mother transitioned into the crumbled shell that it is today. Today, the status of this non-relationship is not a bother to me, and I know that many people wouldn’t understand that. Continue
By Onicia Muller “Get out of my house! You think you grown?! After seven long years of high school (it’s a Dutch/Caribbean island thing), I had less than a month before leaving for college. I could practically smell the jet fuel and salted peanuts! However, what was supposed to be a summer of fun parties and sappy goodbyes became known…
By TaNeisha Gates My partner walked into the room bearing a brown envelope, and the look he gave me, I immediately knew something was wrong. I had only seen that look a few times in our lives together. The day his mom passed was one of them. He sat at the dining table, opened the envelope, and indicated that I…
By Angela Perry He quit. For anyone who read part 1 of this story you know that things were getting bumpier than the Democrat’s road to take back the Senate. But he quit. It took basically alienating myself from him and ultimately deciding that I was just going to leave him alone. Meaning, I wasn’t going to get mad at…
By TJ “Are you going to cum?” asks my dude of some months, breaking the momentum of going down on me to rub his neck once again. “Yea. I’m close.” “You said that 15 mins ago.” Sigh. “You can’t have me down here all day.” “Ok. So what’s the cutoff time?” I ask. “Hunh?” “What’s a decent amount of time…