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'How Do I Make My Boyfriend Listen?'

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Heather Havrilesky
Sep 27, 2022
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Pink Spotted Lily (1936) by Georgia O’Keeffe

This morning someone wrote to me about this column from 2014, asking if I still agree with my original advice and wondering if I have any updates re: dating/ being with men. I’m hoping to address that letter later this week, but in the meantime I thought I’d rerun the column itself.

Rereading it, I loved that I…

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