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What Impact Does Your Daddy Issues Have on Your Relationships? (1)

May 6, 2013 • Category: Dear NWSO, Relationships, Love & Marriage

After speaking with my estranged father, unresolved feelings that I never knew I had have begun to surface. He left when I was born, and wouldn’t give an explanation for walking out. That enrages me, but I need to forgive him because I believe he may be at the root of my commitment phobia, and [...]

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Are You Willing to Experiment in the Bedroom? Pleasure Principle (6)

WORDS BY DAVE JACKSON It was the sound of the arm and leg restraints lifting that woke her. Everything was padded: the floor… the walls… the chair… The room had a series of trap doors only marked by the timing of released air through a small slit in the padding. Dawn began to adjust herself [...]

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What Impact Does Your Daddy Issues Have on Your Relationships? (1)

After speaking with my estranged father, unresolved feelings that I never knew I had have begun to surface. He left when I was born, and wouldn’t give an explanation for walking out. That enrages me, but I need to forgive him because I believe he may be at the root of my commitment phobia, and [...]

Relationships, Love & Marriage»

Should You Have Found Your Husband in College Like Michelle Obama? (3)

was checking out one of my favorite sites TheLifeFiles.com the other day and came across an interesting article. A woman by the name of Susan A. Patton has caused quite a stir with an open letter she penned for the current students of her alma mater dubbed: Advice for the Young Women  of Princeton—The Daughters [...]

Why I Got Married»

Does Your Mother Have to Like Who You Date? – In-Law Love (2)

My mother has always filled the role of “most important woman in my life.” There’s an unconditional bond between us that’s second to none. That is…until I got married. All of a sudden this new female figure took [...]

News & Current Events»

Do You Believe in Charlie and His Imaginary Friend? #SupportTheBook (2)

always appreciate and respect people who can break from tradition and go out on a ledge to follow a dream. More importantly their dream. That’s why I appreciate the efforts of two of my good friends Qimmah Saafir and PopePhoenix (No, his mama didn’t name him that but that’s his “professional” artistic name). At any [...]

Entertainment & Celebrities»

Are You Okay With Your Partner Posting Sexts Online? (4)

h, boy! I guess it’d be wishful thinking to expect more from Cam’ron, but then again this is Cam’ron I’m talking about—the misogynistic MC leader of Harlem’s own Dipset. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing if you can separate rap from reality, but here’s what happened… Last week before a show in Las Vegas, [...]

Music»

7 Slept-On Male R&B Artists [90s & Early 2000s] (13)

woke up the other morning in an R&B mood. I just couldn’t get this one song out of my head. I wound up grabbing my trusty iPhone and Googled the track on YouTube so I could listen to it in the shower and get my bathroom acoustics on. But I digress… The whole experience reminded [...]

Real Life, Real Talk»

Are You Worshipping the Right God? The Anti-Christianity Post (17)

recently read an article that said that the Black community is the most religious racial group in America. That’s not so hard to believe considering how much the church is a part of the African-American lifestyle—especially in the South. Now whether or not everyone who goes to church acts like a saint in his/her everyday [...]

Poetry»

I Am No Superman (7)

I am no Superman. I don’t wear blue tights and a cape. I sport blue jeans and a knit cap on an average day. I blend in with the crowd and remain anonymous. I am no Superman. Bullets do not bounce off my chest. In fact, words often shoot out your mouth like mini projectiles [...]

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