“Everyone that I see on these dating apps is so easy. ‘I love hiking!’ ‘I will eat any food!’ ‘I enjoy going out but also like staying in.’ So amenable! So low maintenance! So unfussy! They’re good vibes only. I am not that way”
I’m sick of you accepting letters from women who are messes but have “a loving husband who always supports my decisions” or women who are in perfect relationships but are haunted by guilt about their exes. We single ladies are messes without the built-in safety net of a partner, and we need your help, too — even more!
I am not that way. Here are my things: I am aggressively feminist. It is not enough for me to date a man who doesn’t actively catcall women; I need someone who will validate me when I complain about mansplaining at work and understand that asking me to tell him what chores he needs to do his 50 percent share of is itself emotional labor that I’m not here for. I’m kinky and find vanilla sex utterly boring; I’ve tried to be more open to it, but it just doesn’t turn me on.
Afterward, I realized that he was the 50th person I’ve had sex with and I cried. I’ve put myself out there so many times, shared my body with so many people, tried to imagine myself loving strangers over and over again, and I’ve only been in one real actual adult relationship, and the person it was with was emotionally abusive and told me to kill myself to spare the world my craziness. Not exactly a confidence booster.
So you know I write to single women all the time, yet the start of your letter is still “I’m sick of you accepting letters from women who aren’t single.” Which is a little bit like telling a guy you just started dating, “I didn’t hear any water running,” after he uses the bathroom. You’re scolding instead of making a request. You could say, “I’d like you to wash your hands before we make out.
Everything you wrote angrily to me is just a note to yourself. Reread your letter. You want to stop fucking random guys so badly. You’re so tired of being hung out to dry. You’re tired of leaping into bad situations. Likewise, if you’re okay with your own sexual preferences, you can have a conversation about slapping that doesn’t include proclaiming non-kinky, non-slappy sex “vanilla” and “utterly boring.” The most boring things in the world can be hot and the hottest things in the world can be boring. Some people find watching other people taking off their shoes insanely hot.
I lived the way you’re living for a long time, and believe me, love doesn’t help. Forget finding love and get right with yourself. Getting right with yourself is as simple as listening to your heart for a change. Learn to trust your feelings instead of stigmatizing them, or making jokes, or acting like they don’t exist. Learn to notice your shame. Notice how your shame makes you clam up and encourages you to do things you don’t want to do.
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