relationships

For This New Year

I want to live. I want to have that kind of life that I’ve always wanted. The kind that I can tell my fifteen-year-old self it was worth going through what I had to go through to get here. I want to be happy. The kind of happy that makes others uncomfortable. To wonder how…

Meet TREMG Writer Charlene: “Can I Be Vulnerable to You?”

Can I be vulnerable to you? Do you know when you are beginning to lack inspiration, that suddenly you can’t help but become vulnerable within your own writing, even when you don’t want to be? It becomes inevitable almost, your fingers itching to write what needs to be written. Lately, if my readers haven’t noticed…

I’m Not Where You Left Me

I’m a big fan of Taylor Swift, ever since I was 11. To say she has helped shape my life would be a total understatement. She’s been some of the reason for why I get a creative spark after bouts of writer’s block, and this time was no different. On the deluxe version of evermore…

The Art in Nakedness

I become aware of his naked presence beside me, opening my eyes from a dream I can’t recall. His broad chest rises and falls against me, his arm sprawled across my back. His breaths are heavy, his spirit is light, and when I shift my posture, his hand adjusts; caressing the length of my spine…

Let’s Be Kinder To Ourselves This Year

I want to say I’m writing this in this moment right now, content and happy. But if I’m being honest, I’m feeling completely run-down and exhausted. And you know what? That’s okay. It’s okay to not always feel your best. Believe me, I have plenty of days where doing even one thing on my list…

I Hope You Find Someone To Go On Long Car Rides With

I remembered to feeling of going on long car rides with my mom. It didn’t matter what time or day it was. We would start in our driveway and end at the beach. Her car trekked through all kinds of weather. A few inches of snow, puddles so big it could sink the tires. The…

Just Because I’m Alone, Doesn’t Mean I’m Lonely

I used to have this ongoing fear in the back of my mind that I would die alone. That no one would ever want to stay with me that long, the famous words said in every couples vows when they get married, “Till death do us part.” For me, I’ve always seen my relationships as…

All The Things I’m Too Stupid Not To Say To You

I waited by the phone a few days ago. Because that’s what I do when you say you’re free for me to come by. I sit and I wait until the message comes up and before I know it I’m getting in my car, driving to your place for one thing and one thing only.…

6 Types of Women Men Should Stay Away From!

What is your New Year resolution men? Hit the gym harder than last year and gain muscle? Further your career? Finally find the lady that makes you want to settle down? Many people decide to make their resolution for the New Year to find love. Once you have this mindset, you have to be serious…

Nia Ray What is Love Anyway project review

Nia Ray is a South Florida artist that is creating some buzz. Nia Ray first started garner attention earlier this year when she released her cute and colorful single “Lowkey.” Now Nia has returned a few months later with her highly anticipated EP “What is Love Anyways.” This six-track Ep starts with an extremely funky,…

He’s Not Your Happiness, You Are

I was sitting down on this black, sort of massage chair in his kitchen, watching him make huckleberry pie from scratch. Music from his Spotify playlist was playing in the background and I was asking questions about his life, details and experiences he had that I didn’t already know about. I watched his movements, his…

A Different Take on Patriarchy: “What is Wrong With Liking the Backstreet Boys?”

Patriarchy. A word quite familiar and even uncanny to the eye. I’ve studied and written about patriarchy in college until practically my fingers bled, delved my mind in its definition, culture, and system, buried myself in its interconnection with our behaviors, decisions, and attitudes, discovered the definite affect it has in both sexual and romantic…

I’m Not Happy, But I’m Getting There

I want to be honest with you. Because I think if I’m not telling you exactly how I feel and just brush it off or put on a facade to fit a certain appeal to others than it’s not being real. And I don’t want to do that to you. I’ve been sitting in my…

Three Secrets-How To Be the Most Positive Person in the Room (Complaining dulls your intelligence)

“There Is No Negativity, Only Absence of Love…” We might as well face it. Everyone wants to be happy. Did you ever feel completely turned off by a person who whines about not wanting “any negativity” around him? Perhaps you didn’t stick around long enough to let him in on our little secret. You could…

Always the Option, Never the Choice

I used to be a perfectionist. I used to believe that everything had to be in a certain place no matter what. Everything in my life had to be lined up perfectly and there couldn’t be any faults or missing pieces. I did such a good job at never faltering, that I didn’t realize I…

Am I Settling?

When I was growing up I was never someone who envisioned how their life would turn out. Sure, I had plans, like for my career and where I might end up with it. But when it came to love, there was never a clear vision; everything sort of seemed foggy. I always wanted to be…

5 True Dating Deal Breakers For Women

There are times that there are true reasons to really end a relationship. These days people will find any reason to break up and move on to the next. He doesn’t watch the same TV shows, he is too darn nice,he calls his mother four times a week. I had one girlfriend that stopped talking…

8 Signs That You Are The Sidechick!

We never want to be her. We will spend many girl nights out talking about her. How can she tear up a family like that? He is married for goodness sake! The side chick. The clean up woman. The homewrecker. We all have had these conversations about these cruel, heartless women who knowingly date men…

Swipe Your Way Through The Rest Of 2020

Do not judge me, or judge, whatever, but I have been a bit… bored… in quarantine… I have done what I swore I would never do and that is to sign up for dating apps. Yes, I know, I’m lame. I just wanted to talk to an adult human. Being home alone with my 4…

Why love stories in animated films are really important

I like the modern Disney stuff. Frozen, Brave, Moana… But what about ~love~? I got HBO Max (recommend it deeply) and been binge watching Studio Ghibli films (do it too, even if it’s the last thing you do, do it!). Ghibli films are beautiful in every way a film can be beautiful. The plots are…