Dear Marzipan, I’m about to become a 25 year old virgin who has never been in a real relationship. And I feel like the biggest failure. Sex isn’t something I take casually because I’m a very vulnerable person (aren’t we all at the core?). Having never been in a relationship makes me feel unlovable/ugly/dumb/fill-in-the-blank-internal insult. [...]
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Hi! I’m a reader of your blog, and I must say that I am absolutely in love with the site! (: Thank you for all of your support! There is an issue of mine that has been occurring for the past 3-4 months, relative to my eating-habits. For the past two years, I’ve been going [...]
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Dear Marzipan, I have a friend that has embarked on a cross-continent drive (California to Brazil) with her boyfriend. They are driving a van the whole way and all started well until about mid-way through Mexico. Now my friend is having homicidal thoughts toward her boyfriend from their close quarters and being around each other [...]
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When I was a kid I was pretty generally terrified. I would lie awake in my bed, night after night, tensely alert because I was sure that if my eyes closed even for a second something terrible would happen. I was afraid of the things that people were capable of doing when no one was [...]
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So, I must confess, this is what I have been asking myself for the past two weeks. It feels like suddenly my life has been pushed into adult overdrive with people working serious jobs and getting married and thinking babies and getting degrees. And for a person with high anxiety/an over-active imagination, let me tell [...]
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Dear Marzipan, I read your blog last week when you wrote about manifesting, which is something that I’d already been working on in my personal life. I wondering if you have any tips for keeping a negative friend from ruining your positive outlook? I love my friend, but sometimes her negative energy is really difficult [...]
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Dear Marzipan, Help! I can’t stop reading my girlfriend’s email and text messages. I trust and love her, but I’ve been hurt before and I’m just so scared it’s going to happen again. I haven’t told her that I’ve been doing it and I feel really awful about it. Am I committing relationship suicide? Dear [...]
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Dear Medicinal Marzipan, I write a blog and I have been thinking of writing an entry that acknowledges the fact that I am queer. The thing is, I haven’t come out to many of the people I imagine will read it. I’ve never planned to use the blog as a vehicle to come out; I [...]
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Dear Medicinal Marzipan, Your response to last week’s Ask Marizpan post was very helpful! Here’s my issue: When I’m in a relationship I tend to throw all my energies into it and into my partner? I get so enraptured in all the intense, romantic, and intimate feelings, but sometimes forget to love myself and lose who [...]
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dear dear medicinal marzipan, i have just come out of a long-term relationship, don’t know the first thing about dating and find myself reverting quickly to cat ladydom. how do you meet new people who you know are into you and emotionally accessible and trustworthy and won’t hurt you and will understand you???? i’d also [...]
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