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Asexuality does not make our lives any worse or any better, we just face a different set of challenges than most sexual people.

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Some struggling marriages can be salvaged with hard work and counseling others should be dismantled and stripped for parts.
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Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.
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Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.
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If you go out with someone and decide you don't want to see them again, do them the courtesy of saying, Hey, I had a nice time, but I don't think things are going to work out between us. Only you can help fight ghosting.
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Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making assumptions.
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You, too, will someday die, perhaps under inconvenient circumstances, at a time when you do not particularly wish to, and for causes that you cannot yet predict.
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It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness!
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Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are.
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Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.
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I don't know of any way to control the subject of one's dreams although I'm fairly certain there are more than a few types of psychoanalysis dedicated to the topic.
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Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.
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I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.
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You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner.
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There are few things more disconcerting than realizing the first date you thought went so well was in fact a dud.
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Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.
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I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat yourself up over what you dream about there are a lot worse things that could slip across the transom of your unconscious mind than an old high school crush who was always nice to you.
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As you feel increasingly comfortable around your friends, I think it's more than fine to share the basic details of your heroin addiction with them. If they seem receptive, you can feel free to talk about it in further detail if they seem judgmental or uncomfortable, you can move on to other topics.
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Reconciliation is not possible when one party asks the other to obliterate all signs of their relationship.
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As long as you don't think he's just pretending not to mind for your sake, it sounds like he has truly accepted that blow jobs are too difficult and painful for you to perform, and he's still very satisfied with your sex life. Take him at his word.
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I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased.
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