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Dana DuBois | I Write Out Loud

Dating & Relationships

I Took My Teens to a Speed Dating Event
What would Carrie Bradshaw do?
 • Dana DuBois
The Condom on the Other Side of the Bed
Platner’s ex-girlfriend just accused him of stealthing her. Not sure what that means? I wasn’t either—even when it happened to me.
 • Dana DuBois
GenX Women: We've Entered Our Widower Era
Turns out I've accidentally become an expert in dating widowers.
 • Dana DuBois
How I Learned Not to Date Down
I thought I could spare myself heartache by settling. I was wrong.
 • Dana DuBois
All GenX Dating Is Grief
Compatibility isn't chemistry. It's whether your griefs can coexist
 • Dana DuBois
Why I Don’t Identify as Demisexual—Even Though I Could
The word fits. That doesn't mean I have to wear it.
 • Dana DuBois
Dating the “Test and Apologize” Type
The test is in earnest. The apology never is. Or is it?
 • Dana DuBois
You’re Not Anxiously Attached. He’s Avoidant.
What happens when men create instability and women start self-diagnosing
 • Dana DuBois
I Went Boysober for a Month. Here’s What It Means and Why I Did It.
Or, as I prefer to call it, mansober.
 • Dana DuBois
I Gave My Consent. He Gave Me Bruises.
My meet-cute went wrong: Was it misaligned expectations or old-fashioned lying?
 • Dana DuBois
I Went on My Third First Date in Over Six Years
(The first was too hot. The second, too cold. Would my third first date be just right?)
 • Dana DuBois
I Went on My Second First Date in Over Six Years
(This time, I’m pretty sure it was a date.)
 • Dana DuBois
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