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Category Archives: Relationships
Being grayromantic and not talking about it
This was written for this month’s blogging carnival on the theme of “The relationship between the aro and ace communities“. Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week is also next week. Some time last year, I mentioned offhand to my then-fiance that I … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, asexual identity, Gray-A, greyromanticism, Relationships
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Once You Get What You Want…
One reason I have taken an active role in the asexual community is because I want asexuality to “go mainstream.” That is, not only would asexuality have the same visibility as other orientations but also letting people of all orientations … Continue reading
Posted in aromanticism, Articles, History, Relationships
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Building a Mosaic from a Shattered Future
This post is for the April 2018 Carnival of Aces (“All the birds but us…”). Cross-posted to Prismatic Entanglements. Content Note: contains a brief mention of sexual assault, and discussion of the impact of trauma on relationships.
Posted in Articles, Community, greyromanticism, personal experience, Relationships
Tagged ace community, aromanticism, asexuality, asexuality and sexual violence, Community, community building, friendship, future, greyromantic, isolation, polyamory, ptsd, queerplatonic, queerplatonic relationships, recovery, sexual assault, sexual trauma, trauma
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Question of the Week: April 10th, 2018.
How do you know if you want to be in a relationship with someone? In Siggy’s recent post on gay coming out stories he writes that while crushes are a big part of coming to realize you are gay narratives … Continue reading
Posted in Question of the Week, Relationships
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Question of the Week: December 5th, 2017.
Are you monogamous, polyamorous, nonmonogamous, polyfidelitous, or something else or in between? My first experience with polyamory was on AVEN almost ten years ago. I was dating an allosexual person and I remember a fellow ace on the forums told … Continue reading
On being unrequited
Content warnings: mention of suicide in a fictional work, discussion of trauma messing with conceptions of the future and relationships, brief mention of abusive relationships (with no specifics), some crappy statements about the insufficiency of aces in relationships On a completely … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Intersectionality, LGBT, personal experience, Relationships
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Okcupid Questions Asexual People Might Want to Answer, an Ace Dating Resource
Okcupid is my favourite dating site or app because of its questions feature. Okcupid questions let you state your preferences and deal breakers and figure out how a potential date feels about the same questions before you’ve ever even talked … Continue reading
Posted in Articles, Community, Demisexual, Relationships
Tagged Dating, Okcupid, Online dating service
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