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I Thought The Breakup Would Make Me Feel Better. Why Do I Feel So Much Worse?

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I Think My Girlfriend Is Cheating On Me With Her Work Wife

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I Read My Girlfriend’s Diary and Now I’m Using It To My Advantage

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Is My Butchness Ruining Our Relationship?

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My Friend Expects Me To Hate Their Ex. I Just Can’t Do It.

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I Moved In With My Girlfriend and Now I Don’t Like Them Anymore

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I Hate That I Want My Girlfriend To Stop Posting Sexy Pics Of Herself On Social Media

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Am I Being Biphobic Or Just Setting Boundaries?

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My Family’s Mad at Me For Refusing To Go on a Homophobic Vacation

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Is It Crazy To Ask My Brother To Change His Daughter’s Name For Me?

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My Girlfriend Has Been Lying to Me for Months About The Weirdest Thing

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My Girlfriend Loves Period Sex and I Hate It

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I’m Scared About My Wife Using Her Ex-Boyfriend as Our Sperm Donor

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If I Didn’t Initiate Sex in My Marriage, We’d Never Have Sex — Is This Normal?

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Is It Creepy That I’m So Much Older Than My Entire Queer Friend Group?

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My Friend Keeps Getting Romantically Rejected and I Think I Know Why — How Do I Break It To Her?

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I’m A Newly Single Older Lesbian Baffled By What My Dates Expect From Me Sexually

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My Bisexual Girlfriend Only Likes Strap-On Sex, Should I Be Worried?

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How Do I Re-Friend-Zone My Friend After the Worst Sex of My Life?

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I Think My Hot Girlfriend Is Gonna Leave Me For Someone Hotter

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Help! I’ve Gotten ‘The Ick’ for My Girlfriend

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Is Refusing To Share My Location a Red Flag?

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I Think My Girlfriend Is Drugging My Dog

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Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up

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Did My Partner Trick Me Into a Lifetime of Sexless Monogamy?

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I’m Masculine, I Strap, I Love Being Called “Sir”… Am I Trans or a Masc Lesbian?

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I Confronted My Girlfriend About Cheating On Me, She Responded By Coming Out as Poly

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I’m In My Thirties and Can’t Make Up My Mind About Having Kids

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I’m a Stone Butch Top Who Can’t Bring Myself To Penetrate Anyone Else

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Into the AF+ Advice Inbox #97: F(ix) My Life

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Into the A+ Advice Inbox #96: So You Hate College

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Into the AF+ Advice Box #95: ANXIETIES

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Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married

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Autostraddle + For Them’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2023!

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Into the A+ Advice Box #93: How Can You Tell If She Has A Crush On You?

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Into the A+ Advice Box #84: Cheating With a Guy While Having Gender Feelings

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Into the A+ Advice Box #83: ETHICS

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Into the A+ Advice Box #82: Travel and Camping (While Gay)

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Into the A+ Advice Box #81: So You Want to Act on Your Celebrity Crush

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Into the A+ Advice Box #80: GENDER FEELINGS

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Into the A+ Advice Box #79: Dating Women Who’ve Previously Only Been With Men

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Are You Pumped? Our 14th Birthday A+ Ask-Us-Anything IS NOW

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A+ Roundtable: The Team Secretly Told Each Other Which 3 Characters Describe Them

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Behind the Scenes: The Autostraddle Black Elders Interview Project

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Bears, Ranked By Lesbianism

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A+ Roundtable: The Weirdest Songs We’ve Fucked To

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Into the A+ Advice Box #78: Forgiveness and Accountability

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Into the A+ Advice Box #77: Should You Co-Parent With Your Queer Friends?

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A+ Roundtable: Our Favorite Sex Toys

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Into the A+ Advice Box #76: JEALOUSY AND ENVY

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