The divorce was tough. For some reason, I remember thinking that finally freeing myself from asshole ex-husband would feel like ridding myself of a burden. I thought it would feel like an immediate, brand new start for myself, where I could focus on my own happiness. It sounded good in theory, but it was far from the case. I started our by doing all the typical ‘new divorce’ stuff. I joined a gym and worked out every day...

My husband, Luke, and I were spending the weekend with a big group of our closest friends. There were sixteen of us in all so we renting a huge cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It was absolutely gorgeous. The cabin was six-thousand square feet with a gigantic kitchen, movie theater, multi-level deck, and of course, an incredible view of the mountains. We had been meeting like this every year since college and now that a...

It was hour four of our eight-hour ride home from my in-laws - exactly half way. I hated this drive almost as much as I despised visiting with my husband’s family. It isn’t that they aren’t friendly or anything. They are perfectly nice people. It’s just that I have to be ‘on’ the entire time I’m around them and it is just exhausting for an introvert like me.I was ready to be out of the car and knowing we had so long to go...

After moving to Los Angeles, finding a steady job was not quite as easy as I had imagined. I found myself bouncing from one production to another as a production assistant for low budget movies, television shows, and commercials. Trust me - it sounds way more impressive than it actually is. My biggest issue was that it seemed to be a club of insiders and the idea of it ‘not being what you know, but who you know’ was more...

“Mare? I’m home early, baby. I couldn’t stop thinking about what we talked about last night,” Jason yelled up the stairs.I was now in a full panic. Diego and Miguel had just dropped huge loads on my face and I had’t even finished washing it off yet when I heard Jason coming up the stairs. I had made a big promise the night before and now I didn’t know how I would keep it. I was completely drained from being fucked so thor...

My wife, Liz, and I had decided to try to get pregnant about five months ago. For the first two months, it was like a dream come true. We were having sex like we did when we first met - at least three times per week! We really didn’t want to get too into the science of when she was most fertile or anything like that. Liz had decided that she really wanted it to be spontaneous.Like I said, it was everything I could have as...

A few years ago, I was lucky enough to land a job with a major university. The bulk of my job focuses on creating new partnerships with major corporations and maintaining existing relationships established along the way. My main goal is bringing these companies into our school to donate money to various programs. From time to time, my job requires me to travel to cities like Philadelphia and Boston. Most of the time, thes...

I arrived at work at my normal time, just before 8:00AM. Technically, I didn't have to be there until 8:30 but, as an intern, I wanted to make a good impression. My boss, Jill, usually showed up around 8:15 and I really liked her seeing that I was consistently there before her. So far, it had been a good plan. She was always giving me extra work and complimenting me on my work habit. It was the last week of my internship...

I reviewed the contract for the hundredth time, trying to make sense of what it said. I know that I understood it when I signed it, but in hindsight, the language of law is nearly impossible to get meaning out of. I had no choice but to face the music and take it to my friend, Erin, for help.Erin was a practicing lawyer that I had known since college. She was super smart and wildly attractive. Nothing has ever happened be...

The day was finally here. Today would be the day that Carla would find out if she had been accepted into her university’s graduate research program and which professor she would be matched with. It was the end of a long, stressful road full of interviews and exams. She felt she had performed pretty well on everything and was hoping for one of the more prestigious assignments. Maybe even more excited that she was, Carla’s...

The story that follows is easily the most mortifying experience of my life. I’m really not even sure why I am feeling the need to share this here, but I can’t keep it in any longer. At least here it can be anonymous. But if I hold it in any longer, I feel I might explode. Call it cheap therapy or something but I’m hoping putting this out into the universe will get it off my shoulders.***It was a typical Sunday afternoon....

Nick and I had been in a bit of a slump lately. Now before you begin thinking all the thoughts that usually come along with a statement like that and the assumptions that go with them - stop. Nick and I are not together and we never have been. In fact, I’d recommend you check out our last story if you have not already done so to get the full history.The fact is that we have been very close friends for years. Sure, lines h...

I grew up in a small town in Arkansas - I’d tell you the name but I really don’t think anyone outside of it has ever even heard of it. That and the fact that it’s small enough that someone could easily figure out who I was after reading this. My story started with my twenty-second birthday. Hitting twenty-two felt like a strange milestone for me. I’m not sure why - nothing special happens at twenty-two. Maybe that was jus...

“Come on, let me come over after the kids go to bed! No one will even know. I’ll park down the street,” Brad begged me. “Fine - but only for a little bit. I don’t want to get in trouble. These people are super nice and pay me really well, so I don’t want to mess that up,” I told him. Brad is my boyfriend. We’re both 17. We’ve been together for a few months and I lost my virginity to him about three weeks ago. Ever since t...

My friend, Nick, and I had always been good friends. We met Freshman year of high school and somehow managed to stay friends for the next ten years without ever getting romantically involved, which is rare for a girl and a guy during those years. That’s not to say there were never rumors. People always suspected that there was more than we were letting on, but we honestly treated each other like family. For whatever reaso...