Tweet Some WithoutBeingCrushed.com site news for your Monday. WordPress (the content management system that runs the site) just released it’s newest version, 3.0, last week. I’ve upgraded and I’m taking some time to play with some of the new options. So far, pretty neat stuff (most of it invisible to those of you who only… Continue reading New Things…
Category: How to Crush
Dealing With It
Tweet Whether you’re falling into crush after crush or getting yourself involved in a series of real relationships, there are going to be all sorts of things you’re going to have to deal with. While crushing, you have to deal with all those random imagined qualities of the person you’re crushing on. You’re going to… Continue reading Dealing With It
New Month, New Topic, You Decide
Tweet Of course, I have no idea what that topic should be! My pile of not-quite-finished posts and musings taunts me regularly. I check the clock every night and realize that, just as my brain is spinning up to writing mode, I need to be spinning it down into that holding pattern known as “sleep”… Continue reading New Month, New Topic, You Decide
Consistency
Tweet Consistency is one of the most palpable stabilizers of a relationship. If someone we’re involved with–be it romantically or not–is changing plans and direction a dozen or more times a day, we’re left spinning in circles trying to keep up (at best) or so frustrated we’re ready to just give up and go on… Continue reading Consistency
Talk About Sex?
Tweet Mid-week question for all y’all: Where did you get most of your sex education? Perhaps more importantly, where do you think people should get sex ed from? Should there be more or less talk about it? It’s always a hotly debated topic at school boards and among religious and secular folks. I’m curious what… Continue reading Talk About Sex?
The Sex Monster
Tweet Sex complicates things. Back at the beginning of the month, I said I’d be talking about sex a bit. That hasn’t happened. There are a number of reasons for that, but the primary one is that sex complicates things. For a while, as we pass through puberty, sex is one of the most all-consuming… Continue reading The Sex Monster
Death, Taxes, and Love
Tweet It is commonly accepted that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. While I greatly respect Mr. Franklin for the sentiment, I respectfully submit that there is one more certainty: Love. Much like death, Love can be a very scary thing to talk about. Much like taxes, the general population rules for… Continue reading Death, Taxes, and Love