by Leila Danjoux | May 26, 2024 | Long Reads, Self-love Era, Top story, Trending
I delve into my past to uncover and unpack why I view being alone so negatively. If you want to hear about influential exes, life transitions and societal expectations, then this one’s for you! I never know how to explain it to people. “Oh yeah, I love my own company,...
by Tara Nagra | May 25, 2024 | Long Reads, Self-love Era, Trending
Here, Tara Nagra investigates the realities of growing up as a brown girl in a western world and details her journey to accepting her place in society. With South Asian girls under 30 years old making up less than 1% of the UK population, it is common for many of...
by Emily Taylor | May 25, 2024 | Breakups, Dating, Long Reads, Relationships, Trending
Rarely do you feel empathy for the person that just broke up with you, but how can you respond to someone who both shattered your heart, and came out as gay. At 17, I had the experience of going through my first breakup. It was my first broken heart, from the first...
by Andrea Lewis | May 25, 2024 | Breakups, Single Era, Trending
For many of us, one simple action, phrase or behaviour can change the dynamic of a relationship, and even be grounds for a breakup. But if we can go from being completely attracted to our partner to utterly repulsed by them, can we ever see past an ick? There...
by Sam Martin | May 25, 2024 | Long Reads, Single Era, Trending
How items left behind from exes after a break up can lead to rumination, resilience, self-discovery and a renewed sense of identity through identity reconstruction. For the first time since my girlfriend and I had broken up, I had a girl coming over. I instantly...
by Leila Danjoux | May 24, 2024 | Just a Thought, Lover girl Era, Top story, Trending
Who doesn’t want to fall in love? The idea that this is your life’s purpose has been forced at us from every direction. Social media, films and endless dating apps, suggest that we should constantly be searching for the one, and even if we’ve found them, they should...
