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Managing Editor Erin Khar is the author of Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies that Nearly Killed Me. She is known for her writing on addiction, recovery, mental health, relationships, parenting, infertility, and self-care. Her weekly advice column, Ask Erin, is published on Ravishly. Her personal essays have appeared in SELF, Salon, HuffPost, Marie Claire, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and others. She's the recipient of the Eric Hoffer Editor's Choice Prize and lives in New York City with her husband and two kids. When she’s not writing, she’s probably watching Beverly Hills, 90210.
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She’s made all the mistakes, so you don’t have to… Ask Erin is a weekly advice column,
That night, my sister's boyfriend sent me a text message saying “sweet dreams.”
My boyfriend is avoiding me. Am I smothering him? Did I do something wrong?
I don't feel like this counts as rape. It wasn't violent, and she didn't drug me. This feels like one of those grey areas, but is it?
My boyfriend and I are generally very happy... except for one thing — I have powerful, almost overwhelming feelings for a mutual friend of ours.
In the texts, the best friend was joking about the situation and my boyfriend liking other girls...
Do people ever recover from abandonment issues? Life looks very long and very lonely from where I'm standing right now.
My friends with kids seem to think I'm fair game for blow-by-blow plays about the tiniest details of their day for hours at a time.
I like when a partner puts some thought and effort (and yes, a tiny bit of money, nothing to break the bank) into special occasions.
I've been beating myself over the past few days, and my wife — who I love, respect, and can't live without — can’t look at me or speak to me.