Chelsea Hawkins

We've all been there: You're at a bar, you've had a few too many drinks and you just want to get home ASAP, so you pull up your ride-sharing app of choice. You know you should just take a bus and save some money, but at a certain point convenience…

Common sense would dictate that becoming financially stable only requires sticking to three rules: Spend less, save more and don't go into debt. But no matter how simple it might sound, a lot of us are still just groping around in the dark (or…

In the United States, policing people's sexuality is the modus operandi of many politicians, so it's no surprise that our country has tried to regulate seemingly innocuous sex acts between consenting adults throughout history.  For instance, sodomy,…

There are all sorts of studies that tell us exposure to other cultures is a smart move — experiencing other cultures makes us more open-minded and smarter, and it demands we see our own world with new eyes. So dating across cultural lines, the…

For years, Diana* kept her depression a secret. She didn't tell her family, and no one knew how it was impacting her schooling, her work or even her religious faith. Well, almost no one. "Tumblr was the only medium through which I talked about my…

For Alison, the dating ultimatum "must love dogs" really worked. The Los Angeles-based sales rep was already the proud owner of three dogs when a mutual friend connected her with a man who'd found a puppy wandering L.A.'s Koreatown. The friend…

'Tis the season for white dresses and multi-tiered cakes: Wedding season is upon us. While all the springtime sunshine has us feeling blissfully romantic, we also have some darker feelings about weddings, ones that come out if we're being truly…

There's a good chance you walked away from a sex ed class as kid believing sex always leads to pregnancy or diseases, and the best way to enjoy it is to not do it at all. If you turned to movies or porn to fill in the rest, you'd have gotten the…

It ain't easy being a teenage boy — especially when you're surrounded by the resounding din of conflicting, and potentially damaging, dating wisdom. There are the examples of sweeping romance, ones that involve standing outside with a boombox or…