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The Monday After — part podcast, part Substack, all sarcasm therapy. Dating chaos, gaslighting recovery, and luxury hotel flakery told with wit, scars, and too many bar tabs.
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The Friends with Benefits Trap (Especially When You’re My Ex)
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The Friends with Benefits Trap (Especially When You’re My Ex)
It’s not dating, it’s not healing, and it sure as hell isn’t love—it’s a barter system with orgasms and nostalgia thrown in.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Command, Control, Gaslight, Discredit, Discard: Inside the Dark Triad Playbook of Emotional Manipulation
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Command, Control, Gaslight, Discredit, Discard: Inside the Dark Triad Playbook of Emotional Manipulation
They don’t fall in love — they recruit, rewrite, and rebrand your empathy until it forgets its own name.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Endless Love: How a Karaoke Duet Turned Into a Night I’ll Never Forget
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Endless Love: How a Karaoke Duet Turned Into a Night I’ll Never Forget
One unforgettable duet, one tequila-soaked night, and a rendition of Endless Love that ended with her singing in my bed instead of on stage.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Don't Recycle the Ex (Even If She's Suddenly Single Again)
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Don't Recycle the Ex (Even If She's Suddenly Single Again)
Just because your ex is newly available doesn’t mean you need to audition for the role of Second Place again.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Why I’m Still Single (And Why Cheesy Romance Might Be the Only Cure)
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Why I’m Still Single (And Why Cheesy Romance Might Be the Only Cure)
Love isn’t dead — it’s just hiding behind sarcasm, situationships, and people who think handwritten notes are red flags.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Blonde on the Brink and Me: A Letter to the Woman Who Writes Like I Bleed
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Blonde on the Brink and Me: A Love Letter to the Woman Who Writes Like I Bleed
She writes like a woman standing on the edge in heels; I write like the guy she left behind at the bottom of the cliff, turning the fall into punchlines.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Trailer Park Girls vs. The Botox Mafia: Chaos, Creams, and Cars
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Trailer Park Girls vs. The Botox Mafia: Chaos, Creams, and Cars
A sharp, funny showdown between real women with grit and glossy ones with filters—where chaos meets contour and authenticity always wins the fight.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Swipe Left on the Lies: When Dating App Honesty Went Extinct
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Swipe Left on the Lies: When Dating App Honesty Went Extinct
If your profile says “love live music,” but your idea of a concert is watching The Walking Dead reruns with headphones, you’re not “curating your image.” You’re just lying with better lighting.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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When Your Number Becomes a Weapon: Why “Closure” Is Just Emotional Blackmail in Disguise
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When Your Number Becomes a Weapon: Why “Closure” Is Just Emotional Blackmail in Disguise
You don’t need closure. You need respect — and a cease and desist for anyone who mistakes your peace for permission.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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When Your Number Becomes a Weapon: Why “Closure” Is Just Emotional Blackmail in Disguise
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When Your Number Becomes a Weapon: Why “Closure” Is Just Emotional Blackmail in Disguise
You don’t need closure. You need respect — and a cease and desist for anyone who mistakes your peace for permission.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Romance Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Hiding from Everyone Who Keeps Calling It Toxic
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Romance Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Hiding from Everyone Who Keeps Calling It Toxic
A follow-up conversation with The Feminist about who really killed romance, and why both men and women deserve a little blame, a little grace, and maybe another round of drinks.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Romance Is Dead, and Women Killed It (But Sure, Let’s Blame the Patriarchy Again)
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Romance Is Dead, and Women Killed It (But Sure, Let’s Blame the Patriarchy Again)
Romance is dead, and women killed it. But don’t worry — there’s still plenty of emotionally unavailable men to go around.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Finding Love in a Prison Pen Pal Group (Because Dating Apps Weren’t Already Prison Enough)
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Finding Love in a Prison Pen Pal Group (Because Dating Apps Weren’t Already Prison Enough)
Sometimes love sneaks past the guards and shows up in the mailroom, proving that even a prison pen pal group can feel like fate with a return address.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The Cassie Chronicles, Part 3
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The Cassie Chronicles, Part 3
Part 3: Cassie in the Wild (And Why Closure is a Scam)
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October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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The Math of Staying in Love (Without Losing Your Mind)
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The Math of Staying in Love (Without Losing Your Mind)
Love isn’t found in chaos — it’s built in clarity.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Easy Mode Friendship: Why Modern Love’s New Rules Leave Us Exiled with a Train Ticket and a Journal
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Easy Mode Friendship: Why Modern Love’s New Rules Leave Us Exiled with a Train Ticket and a Journal
When the old rules vanish, friendship demands more than apologies and kitchen gossip—it calls for investment, boundaries, and the courage to rewrite the story for good.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The Breakup Prix Fixe: The Best High-End Restaurants in North Carolina to Dump a Woman (But Still Let Her Order the Scallops)
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The Breakup Prix Fixe: The Best High-End Restaurants in North Carolina to Dump a Woman (But Still Let Her Order the Scallops)
Fine dining, bad timing—North Carolina’s most expensive way to say, “It’s not you, it’s me (and her).”
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October 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Easy Mode Love Is a Trap: Stop Subsidizing Someone Else’s Heartlessness
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Easy Mode Love Is a Trap: Stop Subsidizing Someone Else’s Heartlessness
If she’s not building with you, she’s shopping for someone who will—and the next guy probably won’t play easy mode.
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October 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Equality Ends at the Bill: Why “Dating with Options” Isn’t the Same Thing as Respect
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Equality Ends at the Bill: Why “Dating with Options” Isn’t the Same Thing as Respect
When everyone preaches free agency but expects someone else to pay the tab, you realize equality still ends where accountability begins.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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When the Rules Disappeared: How the Overton Window of Dating Got Vaporized
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When the Rules Disappeared: How the Overton Window of Dating Got Vaporized
Exploring the chaos of modern love with sarcasm, science, and the occasional heartbreak—so you don’t have to navigate it alone.
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October 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Confessions, Cocktails, and Catastrophes: When the Pickup Artist Thinks He’s the Prize (Guest Post by Allyce)
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Confessions, Cocktails, and Catastrophes: When the Pickup Artist Thinks He’s the Prize (Guest Post by Allyce)
I thought I needed more mystery. What I really needed was honesty — and maybe fewer men who read pickup artist blogs.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Facebook Isn’t Therapy: Why Boundaries Aren’t Betrayals
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Facebook Isn’t Therapy: Why Boundaries Aren’t Betrayals
Unfriending someone online doesn’t make you emotionally abusive—it just means you’re done playing tech support for their nervous system.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The Book of John and Joy
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The Book of John and Joy
When someone invents a narrative about you out of thin air, and your family happily cheers along.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Lake Norman Gossip Is a Bloodsport (And Apparently I’m the Villain)
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Lake Norman Gossip Is a Bloodsport (And Apparently I’m the Villain)
When your ex rewrites the breakup story to make herself the saint, the gossip mill doesn’t just churn—it pulverizes.
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October 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Checklist, Schmhecklist: Why Women Don’t Actually Want What They Say
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Checklist, Schmhecklist: Why Women Don’t Actually Want What They Say
I am the table. The problem is, no one can sit at it without tipping it over.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM