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What to Expect When You Spend the Holidays With Their Family

Your first date, your first sleepover, your first event as a couple, moving in together. Believe it or not, all of these things might happen before you actually bite the bullet and spend the holidays with their family. There’s nothing like this ‘first’, so if you’re about to experience it, here’s what you can expect. Prepare accordingly

How To Deal With a Long-Distance Family

As my dad twirled me around the vinyl dance floor, my eyes teared up with the realization that this moment may never happen again. Across from us, my mom and her husband laughed, my cousin held her sleeping daughter, my grandparents sipped on a rare glass of wine, and my

I’m Greek and I Don’t Eat Meat. Here’s How I Make it Work.

I’m Greek, OPA! Not eating meat in a Greek household is exactly how it sounds – it’s unheard of. Think present day My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I’ve been a meat-eater all my life, but last November my take on meat changed and along with it, my pallet. After eating

My Parents Told Me to “Just Give Up,” So I Did This Instead

When I was growing up, I was so jealous of my friends – though not in the way you’d probably think. I wasn’t envious of the things they had, or did, the clothes they wore, or whatever other trivial things adolescent girls usually think about. Maybe I was a masochist