Guys Talk About the Moment They Became “Real Men”
I’m a man. At least on paper. Most days I feel more like a confused kid, or perhaps some kind of forgotten species of weasel whose forthcoming extinction will go unheralded. I’ve always been a little jealous of the sorts of people who really feel like they’ve got a firm and comfortable grasp on who they are – on what their...
Guys Share The Moment They Really Felt Like Grown Men
There’s a social sentiment as of late that attempts to describe what being a “real man” is are pretty sophomoric and silly, if not straight-up just used to mock and abuse anyone who dares stray from path of some narrow idea of masculinity. So, what DOES it mean to be a “real man?” Is that a thing that even makes...
People Share the Heartbreaking Realities of Custody Battles
You might have heard the statistic that about half of all marriages end in divorce. But strangely enough, a couple of things have been coinciding over the last few decades: 1) Cultural acceptance of divorce has gone up 2) Divorce rates have gone down Why? Well one decent guess would be that younger generations feel less of a need to rush into...
10 Arguments for Just Doing Your Wedding on the Cheap
According to a study conducted by The Knot, the average modern American wedding costs somewhere around $34,000. That’s somewhere around half the general median household income in this country. Imagine spending half or more of the money you’ve brought in in an entire year on just one party. It boggles the mind, but if the data is to be...
People Reveal How They Pulled Off Crazy Cheap Weddings
Weddings are stupid expensive most of the time. Which is great, I guess, if you’re the sort of person who can afford to spend a ton of money on one event and not feel the impact of that spending on the other parts of your life. But for the rest of us – modern weddings seem to be an endless tug of war between trying to create a large...
10 Times That Bedroom Antics Absolutely Failed
I’m going to ask you to do something pretty painful right now. I want you to think of the biggest bedroom fail you’ve ever had. The time that you were going for hot and steamy and ended up with egg metaphorically all over your face. Anyway, now that you’ve done the hard work of recalling that incident, here is your moment of...
People Share Their Weirdest Bedroom Fails
We love to think of our special sexy bedroom time as a highlight of life. Where we get to let loose with our passions and feel sexy and powerful and alive and maybe wildly in love as well. But of course, we know that not all that glitters is gold. And we know that it’s far too easy not to even glitter at all when it comes to getting down in...
15 Real Stories About Waking up With Strangers
A one night stand can be an interesting thing, whether it’s a sort of an unexpected occurrence with a friend, an intended relationship that doesn’t go anywhere, or just a “we both know what this is” kind of Tinder hookup. But what about when it’s so accidental and unexpected that you don’t even know who...
People Reveal How They Wound Up Sleeping with Strangers
It’s more or less of staple of movies. You show that a character’s life is wild verging on dangerous with a sequence in which they wake up groggily next to someone they apparently don’t know at all. But what about when it happens in real life? People that have woken up in bed with a stranger, what’s your story? byu/zyht56...
11 Reasons That Instagram is Just the Weirdest
There’s no denying that Instagram is an absolute phenomenon. Long before it was bought out by Facebook for ungodly sums of money, and even a good bit before the idea that being an “influencer” was some sort of legitimately profitable endeavour, it was already the app where we’d try to show off the most mundane parts of our...