Smash Talks: Monogamish Mess
My partner and I are in an open relationship, but every time I want to exercise that openness my partner gets hurt so I generally just don’t act. Is there a better way to deal with this without sacrificing?
Articles by Ashera DeRosa
Smash Talks: Love Thyself
Over the past few months, my love life has become a spiritually taxing train wreck. I suspect that I’d greatly improve my success in romantic relationships and my overall emotional health by taking a deliberate break from dating to tend to my personal development.
NOISEMAKERS: The Women Who Make Buffalo’s Music, Part II
Featuring Grace Stumberg, Janna Willoughby-Lohr, and Erica Wolfling.
Smash Talks: Inevitable Endings
I recently ended a four month thing with a guy who I was just dating. We saw each other at least once a week, though there were “off” weeks on occasion as we are busy adults with lives.
NOISEMAKERS: The Women Who Make Buffalo’s Music, Part I
Featuring Sophia Howes, Sara Rodriguez, Kimberly Young-Mason, and Amanda Markovich-Rabb.
Smash Talks: The Cling and the Need
I keep finding myself in relationships I don’t like to please men that I’m not all that into. The dynamic usually consists of me not being that into them, while they’re head over heels for me. I’m bad at telling people what they don’t want to hear so I let it linger on.
Smash Talks with Ashera
After about a decade of a very DGAF attitude towards relationships, and several tumultuous / hilariously awful / plain old hilarious short-term affairs (and even more one-nighter/one-weekers), I think I might be FINALLY ready / interested in meeting an actual grown-up and having an actual grown-up relationship with them.
COMING UP: Noelle LaMonica + The Howling Mine Pop-Up
Meet artist Noelle LaMonica and check her out IRL this Friday, December 16.
Mary Hetrick: Fanciful Furnishings
“I stand back, give it a look, and remember that I just did that with my own two hands from start to finish.”