Summer is over and it’s time to get back between the sheets! With a new collaboration team to delve deep into their personal journeys in college love, lust and misadventures throughout. Please feel free to send any questions about relationships, sex, hookups, breakups, reproductive health, and even our personal lives our way. We hope to be able to interact with you and learn more about the time YOU spend between the sheets! So, to give you a bit of perspective on who is who in this Sex and the City-esque column, here is a little about us!
By Aubrie Smith, Section Editor.
I like cats more than I like people, and it’s taken a pretty big toll on my dating life.
The truth is, I get bored. My attention span for relationships is nonexistent. After being in a serious relationship for over three years, it’s hard to find a connection that keeps my interest the way that one did. Unless we’re backpacking through Europe one minute, and joining the circus another, odds are I’ll be bored within days. But, honestly, for the meantime, I’m okay with that.
Dating around doesn’t bother me. I’m perfectly content being alone, or not forming attachments. In some ways I, prefer it. Tinder hookups and unanswered text messages here I come!
Though I know it sounds weird, I prefer my life being on my terms, and not having to plan around someone else’s schedule. Wrapping my life around another person just doesn’t seem plausible or desirable at the moment. I would rather spend that time working on myself, figuring out what kind of a person I am, than seeking out someone to spend time with.
I suppose I’m operating under the assumption that love will happen when love is meant to happen. And, until then, screw it.
I’m a strong, independent woman, and I don’t need a significant other to make me feel good; and that’s a really positive step for me!
To be honest, I’m not really sure where my life is taking me, but I’m not sure that I need to know. Right now, I’m excited to see what this year has to offer. I look forward to all of the random Tinder hookups, the bad first dates, the unanswered text messages, and the sleazy people I may meet. Bring it on, Junior year. I’m ready to get “Between The Sheets.”
By Josie Dudek, Section Editor.
I like cats more than I like people, and it’s taken a pretty big toll on my dating life.
I never dated much in high school, and didn’t really plan to, until I met the special “one.” I spent my years hanging out with different groups of friends, always being the single one, and was honestly quite fine with it. I did the whole sport thing, the stoner thing, the loner thing, but was never quite satisfied.
At the age of 18, I was working non-stop while preparing for my first year of college, as well as dealing with some life challenges being thrown at me. Needless to say, I was pretty preoccupied most of the time. So, of course, that is when life decided to throw love into the mix. I met my current boyfriend while working in retail at 18. But, due to my previous life responsibilities, I felt the time wasn’t right for us to be together, and decided to end the relationship before it even began.
I spent the next year and half focusing on school, work, and spending my free time at home with my cats. Sure I tried to find other connections with people, but they were never genuine and didn’t feel the way I knew that love is supposed to. That’s when I realized, I had found love, but threw it away.
After months of social media stalking and building up courage, I decided to message my long-lost love. At the time, he was in a fairly lengthy relationship, but I had to see him just one last time to get the closure I was longing for. We started talking more and more, then once we saw each other again for the first time, we just knew we had to be together. Now, 6 months later, we’re still together and very happy.
My perspective on love is ever changing, and my personal story with love tells the same story. Whether I’m sleeping in bed alone, or spending my nights “Between the Sheets,” this is my journey in love.
