relationships

Ah, Valentine's Day. Depending on your current relationship status you may see it as a joyful day used to commemorate love, or a fabricated corporate scheme that blew the F up. Whichever stance you take, the day is coming up SOON. So we may as well have some fun looking at these design fails. Considering these manufacturers barely proofread many of these products, perhaps we should all use this as a reminder to not take the day so seriously either.

Anyone who has been in a long-distance relationship knows how tough it can be. Phone sex gets kind of boring after a while, spooning yourself to sleep is impossible, and FaceTime dinner dates pale in comparison to the real thing—especially if you have bad wifi connection. But not everyone is fortunate enough to live with, or even in the same city or country as their partner, and these tweets accurately sum up the relatable difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship.

Breakups are never easy, but they're especially harder to get over when you don't have any type of closure. In an ideal world, you'd be able to sit down with your ex and have a civilized chat about why the relationship didn't work out. You'd each express your feelings, maybe cry, definitely hug it out, and shed the emotional baggage from the relationship. But life rarely works out like that, and as I've learned over many years of heartbreak, creating your own closure is the only real way to move on. But closure is relative; does it mean going to therapy? Keying his car? How about a good old fashioned breakup letter? Or, since we're in the age of social media, a public letter on Instagram, letting him know just how disappointing you found him. Thanks to the Instagram account To The Guys I've Dated, now you can do just that. Women everywhere are submitting letters to the disappointing men they have dated (or kinda dated) to get the closure they need. Each week we bring you a new selection of some of the funniest ones, and this latest haul is just as funny and brutal as all the previous ones we've published.

Before 2020 the biggest risk of dating was getting rejected, hurt, stood up, kidnapped etc etc. Today those are all still relevant fears, but on top of it, there's an even bigger risk. What was it called again? Oh yeah, the virus. 

If you're going to meet up with someone, it's not enough to stalk their socials beforehand and make sure they're kind of normal, you need to think long-term. Is this 5"7 stud with an aggressive calf tattoo worth potentially infecting my entire social circle? It's a tough one.

On the bright side, you don't have to feel bad at all for not getting any action this past year. You can say, "I'm just taking this virus very seriously," and that is totally valid. Even after this all passes I may even tell people, "In preparation of the next global pandemic, I am purposefully remaining single until further notice." Yeah, you're all welcome.

When convincing my friends to take a leap of faith and pursue things with someone they think they might like, I try to push them by saying, "What's the worst that can happen? Either you break up or you get married. Those are the two options." But really, after further analysis, I can see now that there are really many MANY more directions a relationship can go in. I can think of 15 now, but until these apps manage to completely distort our dating experiences, and entirely hinder our ability to meet people ~organically~, well this is what I got for ya.

Sex is a kind of a big deal, especially in a relationship. A couple's sexual compatibility is just as important as their emotional and physical connection, and it's not something people should compromise on. I'm not saying you have to be into the same stuff necessarily, but if there is respect, communication, and open-mindedness, then a sexually fulfilling relationship is possible. But sometimes, even with all of that, it's not enough. If you've ever had to break up with someone because the sex was that bad (definitely speaking for a friend here), then you'll empathize with these people. Redditors shared the reasons they ended a relationship over sexual incompatibility, although it seems like 'cheating' is being used synonymously with 'incompatibility,' and I'm confused.

You might think it's easy to get some these days, especially with everyone desperate for human contact after lockdown. But it turns out that cat owners often encounter technical setbacks that the average person doesn't, which could stop them from getting lucky in the sex department. Together with The Single Society, we bring you real women's stories of times their cats did everything they could to stop their owners from getting laid, which, if you know a thing or two about kitties, isn't all that surprising. It turns out cats might just be the ultimate c*ck blocks!

We'd love to hear your stories, cat owners! Share it with us in the comments below.

And just a little reader discretion, the following stories are uncensored and quite naughty. Naughty but definitely hilarious, and very relatable. Proceed with caution.

Anyone who is in or has been in a relationship will know that love isn't always easy. Everyone comes with baggage (although some suitcases are way bigger than others), and therapy can often help couples get through the more challenging times or specific issues they may be facing. But sometimes, even therapy isn't enough to salvage a relationship and push past specific glaring red flags. Professional relationship therapists shared on Reddit some of the giant red flags they've seen in couples who come in for sessions and whether or not the relationship can survive these issues. Some of them are genuinely eye-opening and might make you feel less alone in your relationship struggles. Or, they might spur you to book that therapy appointment you've been avoiding.

When it comes to dating, everyone needs to kiss a few frogs before finding their prince charming. And by frogs, we mean men who will let you down, screw you over, or generally disappoint you in some way or another. We've all had the 'pleasure' of dating, or kinda dating these men, but hey, at least they make for fun stories to tell our girlfriends, right? And now, instead of just venting about them, you can take it one step further and write them a public letter of disappointment, with the Instagram account To The Guys I've Dated. They help women get the closure they need after kissing yet another crappy frog by publishing short letters written by the women who dated them. Here is the latest collection of these hilariously sad but relatable letters, which might inspire you to submit one of your own.

With the myriad of personalities out there in the dating world, one is likely to encounter the ubiquitous stage-5 clinger. A stage-5 clinger is a person who is likely to become overly attached, overly fast. After one date they are already planning your wedding or can lose their shit if their text isn't replied to in what they deem a timely manner. We receive many stories of these bothersome specimens in particular, so here is a list of 7 times a date was a complete stage-5 clinger, compliments of The Single Society!

If you're a woman, then chances are, you've either been in a relationship with or at least had a date with a man who made you lose the will to live. Men possess a unique talent for really grinding your gears and getting under your skin- and not in a good way—amirite ladies?  Imagine the satisfaction you'd get by writing him a letter expressing what you felt about him and posting it online for all the world to see (including, hopefully, his mom). Well, now you can, courtesy of the Instagram account To The Guys I've Dated, who post funny and real letters of disappointment from girls to their "exes." Each week, we bring you a fresh batch of these letters, so dive in and scroll through this latest haul, and then check out last week's in case you missed them.

I think I can probably speak for most people when I say that growing up, my sex ed was almost non-existent. I picked up everything I know now along the way, either through the garbage my friends told me or, as I got older, through some awkward trial and error experiences. I was that gullible kid who believed you could get pregnant from swimming in a pool and that my parents only had sex the same amount of times as the number of siblings I have (and even that was way too many for my liking). People on Reddit share some of the weirdest myths about sex they believed as kids, and they make me feel less alone, as that kid who believed anything and everything about the big, bad world of sex.

Relationships have their ups and downs. Sure, therapy is a great way to process your feelings, but it's expensive as f*ck. Twitter, on the other hand, is free. So when you need to rant about your partner who is driving you crazy or complain about being so single that you're starting to grow cobwebs down there (speaking for a friend, of course), then tweeting about it can be almost as therapeutic as therapy. Welcome to this week's funniest relationship tweets, where all the highs and lows of love get penned in 280 characters or less.

The extended lockdown over the past year has meant many couples now work together from home. Of course, living and working with your significant other isn't ideal because you're basically on top of each other 24-7, exposing you to sides of them that you might not have seen before. But since it's pretty unavoidable nowadays, couples have had to adapt. Unfortunately, it has brought out the ugly side of people, which one guy who posted on Reddit's Am I The Asshole proved when he went on a jealous rant after observing his GF's work schedule and being bitter that she was making double his salary for half the work. She understandably got pissed off, explaining that it wasn't his place to say what her time was worth because she was hired for her knowledge. If her boss and CEO saw the work she produced and based her salary off that, it wasn't his place to undervalue her because he was jealous. He also casually threw in the fact that she does the housework and he doesn't. Redditors had a lot to say to him, but the main consensus was that he was the asshole who had jealousy issues. Read his ridiculous rant, and let us know what you think.

We've all been through breakups where all we wanted to do was send our piece-of-sh*t ex a message telling them exactly what we thought of them. Because, well... closure. But, whether our friends convinced us not to, or our sense of pride got the better of us, we held back (until we had that second glass of wine). But now, the Instagram account To The Guys I've (Kinda) Dated has your back when it comes to getting the closure you need from any men who let you down. Simply write your ex a short letter, let them post it, and hope his whole family (and new GF) sees it! Simple.

Aah, that blissful feeling of being in love — it's a beautiful thing, but it doesn't come without its complications. At one point or another, many of us will have found ourselves in questionable relationships where we put up with behaviors we shouldn't have—speaking for a friend, of course. The rose-colored glasses we wear in relationships can blind us to some pretty glaringly obvious red flags, which we can only see clearly once the relationship has ended. On the bright side, we can use them as learning experiences of what not to ignore when it comes to our next relationship. A tweet asking people to share the biggest red flags they ignored in relationships has revealed some hilarious responses, which might make you relate to any previous sh*t shows you dated in the past. What were some red flags you ignored?