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5 votes
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What it’s like to isolate with your girlfriend and her other boyfriend
17 votes -
Love in the time of coronavirus?
Following an off-topic conversation starting here: https://tildes.net/~health.coronavirus/mq7/advice_from_a_doctor_who_studied_coronaviruses_for_50_years#comment-4qi7 I thought it would be handy...
Following an off-topic conversation starting here:
I thought it would be handy to establish that life still continues even in pandemic lockdown. One participant mentions a successful video date, and another wishes for sex.
The questions below may be personal and sensitive - please use your best judgement in answering or refraining to do so. Usual Tildes rules of courtesy apply.
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If you're in a relationship, what are you doing to keep it alive and healthy?
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If you're not partnered, what are you doing, if anything, to date or otherwise meet your needs while everything is closed down (if this is the case where you are)?
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Does your idea of love or sex require physical contact?
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If physical contact is required, what, if anything, are you doing to stay safe right now?
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How Sweden is fixing the housework gender gap – do Swedish-style tax breaks for cleaners provide a solution or perpetuate gender-role norms?
6 votes -
How dating became a market, and the consequences that follow from this
22 votes -
A nation mourns innocents lost in suburban street
9 votes -
Eight things toxic mothers have in common
10 votes -
The new breed of sex addicts - who don't have sex
10 votes -
Advanced love: The secrets of a lasting (and stylish) relationship
4 votes -
Queer time: The alternative to “adulting” | What constitutes adulthood has never been self-evident or value-neutral. Queer lives follow their own temporal logic.
10 votes -
YouTube: bad? - Shannon Strucci's musing on YouTube, fan toxicity, issues with takedowns, and the ups and downs of a YouTube career
5 votes -
An adult’s guide to social skills, for those who were never taught
7 votes -
On the line between truth and fiction when writing about your family
8 votes -
Learning about love and banter from Tinder, Garry Kasparov, and Turing tests
7 votes -
When does a boyfriend or girlfriend become part of the family?
10 votes -
Lovers in Auschwitz, reunited seventy-two years later. He had one question
7 votes -
fire
This is a reflection of what building friendships and close relationships is like for me. Mental health makes everything much harder, but I keep trying. it shines and blazes such light and warmth...
This is a reflection of what building friendships and close relationships is like for me. Mental health makes everything much harder, but I keep trying.
it shines and blazes such light and warmth stories told round the hearth cold nights kept a safe distance away beauty in chaotic dancing patterns it promises everything all at once no regard for consequences or the future just passion in the moment no foresight, only enthralling abandon its wake is ash empty, cold, dead no energy never burn again it destroys what it loves what it needs not because it wants to because it is destruction guised as passion
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'You don't have to settle': the joy of living (and dying) alone
10 votes -
On finding the freedom to rage against our fathers
8 votes -
Romantic regimes
6 votes -
Indonesia moving to ban sex outside marriage
16 votes -
Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests
6 votes -
Why your inner circle should stay small, and how to shrink it
6 votes -
The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
5 votes -
Polyamory in the Pacific Northwest
10 votes -
My life with face blindness
21 votes -
For nonbinary people, struggle for recognition extends to romantic relationships
6 votes -
Is it time for asleep divorce?
11 votes -
Do you know who your ‘friends’ are?: Making digital conversations humane will require defining our online relationships
5 votes -
Facebook connected her to a tattooed soldier in Iraq. Or so she thought.
5 votes -
More people need to talk about having fewer children
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The Crane Wife - Ten days after calling off her engagement, CJ Hauser travels to the Gulf Coast to live among scientists and whooping cranes
10 votes -
Breaking up is harder to do in Denmark after divorce law changes
10 votes -
People tell us how QAnon destroyed their relationships
26 votes -
The day the fire came: A tale of love and loss on the Panhandle plains
4 votes -
Tell us about your first love
How did they make you feel? How old were you? How did things end?
20 votes -
When the racist is someone you know and love…
12 votes -
When you’re trans, living with your parents can be complicated
8 votes -
Where disease stopped and my brother began: Coming to terms with a sibling's suicide
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Queer parenting: The beauty of the sometimes less-visible modern family
5 votes -
Torn apart by the Syrian war, these siblings struggle to stay connected across 6 different countries
6 votes -
The new American family: Trans, gender queer, nonbinary, two-spirit
7 votes -
Why I found my community in a Starbucks
6 votes -
Five Kinds of Relationship Problems
7 votes -
When you give a friend a kidney
5 votes -
The world of online dating for socialists
9 votes -
Many people having affairs consider themselves to be ‘happily’ married
8 votes -
'They have become the new religion': Esther Perel says we expect too much from relationships
11 votes -
How did you meet your significant other?
Howdily-doodly Tilderinos. I want to say "See Title." But I feel like that kinda defeats the purpose of this site, so I'll expound a bit. Looking around me now, I see couples walking around. I see...
Howdily-doodly Tilderinos.
I want to say "See Title." But I feel like that kinda defeats the purpose of this site, so I'll expound a bit.
Looking around me now, I see couples walking around. I see young men strutting down the street; rushing to and fro; or making their trek somewhere on a bike. I see young women on these rent-a-scooter things that Bird and other companies offer; walking beside their friends; or sitting with their books.
And I can't help but reflect on how much our adult lives are built around doing romantically isolating things. We sleep 8-hours a day; social progress here is only made in dreams that we occasionally wish to remain in. We work 8-hours a day; and as far as I understand it, relationships with colleagues are wholly discouraged. That leaves us 8 hours to cook, eat, maintain a home, relax, participate in hobbies, enjoy friends, and enjoy family.
Our society feels, to me, very live-to-work; not that I have an alternative to the status quo to offer.
That being said – Tilda Swintons, how did you meet your significant others?
edit: "howdilly" => "howdily"
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How do you think of love relationships?
As in, are they eternal or ephemeral? open or closed? Do you have control over how you feel for someone? Does everyone deserve a chance? Go wild.
15 votes