Melissa Petro

Especially if you’re a woman, people assume you’re hungry for a man.

It's pretty well understood in 12 step programs that "who you see here and what you say here, stays here."

A lot has been written about what not to say to a pregnant person. Being on the opposite side of that, I’ve learned pregnant people make mistakes, too.

For someone like me — someone with difficulty forming and maintaining relationships, who has struggled with commitment, and who’s got intimacy issues galore — surely, you can see the appeal. You don’t need to be Freud to figure out why, at a disturbingly young age, I looked forward to the day a man would commit.

Hate hurts us all, but we don’t all receive it with the same systemic intensity. Those of us with the privilege to do so need to push against the borders of what is “permissible” in this society. We need challenge the idea of “normal” — rather than conform to it — so that all of us can live more closely to our truths.

If you missed my weekly column this summer all about getting engaged and planning a wedding, here’s the highlight reel: after doing

You may have heard the old joke that 98% of people masturbate, and the other two percent are lying.

Guys, stop eating instant noodles. Seriously, they found lead in them. LEAD. Besides this, our stomachs can not digest them.

How do you break up with a best friend?

Sometimes the fights I pick with my fiancé are really fights with myself.