It’s been a while since I wrote my last Heartbeat story — the same time as last year, or at least at a similar time as last year. I learned a little more about myself when it comes to relationships,...
Meeting your significant other at university is wonderful. You get to live and work near them, meaning you can see them almost everyday. Unfortunately, meeting your significant other at university also...
Why do we hold up college as a good time to find a life partner? You hear it from your friends, from their parents, sometimes even from administration: “We met in college.” Yet college comes so early...
I didn’t know this four years ago, but that boy who sat behind me in high school chemistry class was the one for me. After three years apart, a fish of all things brought us back together. I know it...
In my freshman year, I read Sappho's “Ode to Aphrodite” for my seminar and almost cried in class discussion. I was taken by her vengeful plea for the love of her life to love her back. In August of...
Hello my lovelies! I’m back from my sabbatical where I studied campus squirrel mating trends, and I’m elated to share dating advice in a “post-pandemic” world. We are a couple weeks into the spring...
In the Netflix special “Jigsaw,” Daniel Sloss put forward an analogy that every person’s life is a puzzle made up of pieces that represent your family, friends, hobbies, jobs, partners, and we’re...
As we approach the holidays, I thought it would only be fitting to share my cheesy, Hallmark-style love story: my boyfriend and my parents. My boyfriend is really good with parents. He’s good with relatives...
I am a man. I figured this out at some point between the first time my father told me not to cry, and the first time a woman asked me why I could not. Manhood, for so many of us, is the experience of slowly...
Loving yourself. A concept that should be so easy and natural. Yet, it's one of the hardest things to do. Why can’t we love ourselves for who we are, where we are at, and where we are going. When did...
I always believed love was complicated, messy, and sometimes brutal. In some cases, it felt like I was laying my heart on a battlefield. There was nothing simple about love until I met him.
When I talk...
When I was 15, I went on my first date. I was a freshman in high school, and this was my first time ever hanging out with a boy, let alone being alone with one. To say I was nervous was an understatement!...
