Native Son: The fault in our symbols and how cinema fails at impressionism
It’s cool that Bigger likes both punky screamo and Beethoven, but a character’s bipolar taste in music doesn't make him complex. Neither does…
I am a 30-year-old lesbian in a relationship with a woman for more than a year. My family already knows my sexuality and have happily supported me.
I am an only daughter with three brothers, and it was very traumatic for my family when I got pregnant in high school by a boy from a poor family. They lamented that I threw away my future. I was sent to relatives in the north to give birth.
Over 40 years ago, I fell madly in love with someone I was willing to leave my family for. He was not as educated, will never be as connected, and would never be able to give me the comforts I’ve been used to.
Dear Emily, I am 19 years old and in a relationship with a married man who is separated from his...
I’m a 32-year-old mother of a baby boy who is now 6 months old. I recently separated from my husband because he cheated not just with one, but with a number of his coworkers.
Dear Emily, To add spice to our sex life, my wife and I act out certain fantasies. A favorite is...
I am 28 and I’ve been a mistress for 10 years now. I met my lover at an event where I was an usherette. I wasn’t immediately attracted to him because of our 30-year difference in age, and he being a married man with children.
Cousins marrying cousins is nothing new. It's been done for centuries... The only reason this practice is alarming, is the potentially crippling genetic effect of such a union to future children.
Emily’s Post By Emily Marcelo Dear Emily, My parents separated 35 years ago, and my father remarried and lived in...
Dear Emily, I am a working mom, married 14 years to a seaman, and we have two kids. I...
