'Is My Sexy Poet Friend Manipulating Me?'

Understanding your own values, needs, desires, and boundaries is sometimes more important than analyzing someone else's intentions.

Series I White and Blue Flower Shapes (1919) by Georgia O’Keeffe

This letter originally appeared on The Cut on 3/18/20 at the *very* beginning of the pandemic, and YOW! What a perfect column to launch us into The Age of Obsession! Oh, you don’t know what I mean by that? Well that’s what 2020-??? will be called one hundred years from now — you know, by th…