People Share Their True Stories of Cheating with the Neighbor
It sounds like something from a…erm…adult film. The new neighbor stops by to say hello. Oh, I’m sorry, I’m just in a towel, I wasn’t expecting anyone. “No,” she says, twirling her hair in her finger and closing the door behind her. “The towell is just fine. Why don’t you show me...
10 Surprising Stories About Cheating with the Neighbor
Cheating is a lot of work. I mean, honestly. There’s all the hiding, the cover-ups, the stories, the staying out of the eye of the ever-present beast that is social media, it’s just a whole thing. Looking for a way to make it easier? Why not keep things local! Very local. As in, just start hooking up with your next door neighbor. At...
These Are the Parts of Pregnancy Nobody Talks About
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the quickest gestation period for any mammal goes to the Virginian opossum, who only goes about 12 days before. The longest period belong to the Indian elephant, who typically clocks in at about 22 months Humans fall right smack dab in the middle of the spectrum with a tidy 9 month pregnancy in most...
Women Reveal What Really Happens to a Pregnant Body
I am a dude man person, and not capable of getting pregnant. My entire life I’ve heard women tell me how insane it is, and how painful childbirth is, as though I’m being challenged to deny it. I’m not. I’m sure I’ll never experience anything half as bizarre or challenging. The whole thing is a truly bonkers miracle...
People Reveal their True Feelings About Who They’re Dating
We all spend so much of our lives looking for the right person. Then it happens. You’re pretty sure you’ve found them, you get super involved, and then you wake up one day and think “Nope. This is incorrect. I chose wrong. Now what?” On paper the solutions seem simple, but emotions don’t really fit on paper, which is...
10 Confessions From People Who’ve Realized They’re Dating the Wrong Person
There are few feelings worse in this world than slowly coming to realize that you’re in a relationship you really shouldn’t be in. Sometimes that takes a dramatic and obvious form, like realizing your partner is absolutely toxic or awful to you, but sometimes it’s a lot more subtle. Sometimes it’s just a dawning like...
14 Times When Words Were Just Too Hard
Estimates say that American adults tend to know between 20,000 and 40,000 words, which honestly sounds like a lot, even for someone like me who takes joy in learning new ones. Maybe the fact that we’re storing away so many of them can help explain why some of the simpler ones just elude us. Why it is that we can’t grasp them right when...
10 Celebrity Burns That Are Right on the Money
Celebrities. They’re just like us! Except most of us probably don’t have a million people lobbing insults at us on the internet all day. Don’t get me wrong, the perks probably outweigh it, and may celebs take it in stride with some good humor. But I say that if you’re gonna roast, roast with some cleverness. Make it good,...
12 Truths About College Your Teachers Won’t Tell You
When I was in high school, I worked my butt all the way off to maintain straight A’s. As far as I can remember I never got less than an A- overall in a class. It was a private high school with fairly rigorous standards and my self-imposed striving for perfection was absolutely brutal. Then I went to college and got a C in my very first...
10 Deep Truths About What Really Awaits You in College
When I was in high school, college felt like this mystical, far-off and lofty experience. And to be fair, I didn’t exactly twiddle my thumbs while I was there. In retrospect it might just end up being the most densely-packed period of my entire life, full of all kinds of experiences, most of which I don’t even regret. Even so, it...