- abuse
- danger
- rape
- love
- marriage
- sex
IHTM: I Knew I Was Marrying The Wrong Guy -- But Married Him Anyway
I thought the fact that we were so different was a good thing. We would work out because we weren’t too much alike. Isn’t that the stupidest thing you ever heard?
It Happened To Me
It Happened To Me: I'm Orthorexic
There's a fine line between being healthy and going too far.
- family drama
- infertility
- pregnancy
It Happened to Me: Infertility Drove Me Insane
My focus wasn’t on my very real husband, but on imaginary offspring. I became a sperm junkie.
- cyber sex
- phone sex
- sex
- tech
It Happened to Me: I Was a 13-Year-Old Cyber Sex Addict
During the day, I may have been no one, but online, I was a goddess.
- body
- gastric bypass
- healthy
- weight loss
It Happened to Me: Gastric Bypass Was the Best Decision of My Life
I keep my weight loss surgery a secret, because as much as being fat is stigmatized, losing weight "the easy way" is too.- body image
- photography
- weight
It Happened To Me: I Looked Fat in a Picture and I'm Getting the F*%k Over It
I thought I could hide what I look like in the offending picture. But here's the dirty secret: THAT IS SOMETIMES WHAT I LOOK LIKE.
- sex
- virginity
It Happened To Me: I Lost My Virginity at 30
Not only was I a virgin, but was a virgin who had never given or received oral sex, never been fingered, and never had my boobs touched under my shirt.- body image
- healthy
- weight loss surgery
It Happened to Me: I had Weight-Loss Surgery at 17
Having the lap-band surgery was one of the worst decisions I have ever made in my 22 short years.
- cigarette girl
- i'll try anything once
- jobs
- work
I'll Try Anything Once: My Night As a Candy Girl
I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep a straight face playing an overly sexed woman selling her goods. Turns out, I’ve been in rehearsal my whole life.
- divorce
- emotional affairs
- marriage
- relationships
- remarriage
- workplace romance
It Happened to Me: I Met the Love of My Life When I Was Married to Someone Else
I didn't want to cheat, emotionally or otherwise. I was married. I had to put my husband first. Right?
It Happened To Me, divorce, emotional affairs, marriage, relationships, remarriage, workplace romance
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- anorexia
- binge eating
- binge eating disorder
- bulimia
- eating disorders
- food
- insurance
It Happened to Me: I Can't Stop Binge Eating
No matter how careful I am during the day, in a cubicle, or in with a group of girlfriends at dinner, there is some part of me that knows when I am alone and I can and will buy and eat an entire box of Fig Newtons and a whole sack of Cheeze-Its.- naked pictures
- nudity
- sex
- tech
It Happened to Me: I Googled Myself and the Second Article That Came Up Was Me Naked. Oops!
Let’s say you met me out and then you went home and Googled me. Maybe that would be a deal-breaker for you. Maybe you’d feel jealous. Maybe you would think these photos meant I was an exhibitionist of some sort and you would expect me to be an exhibitionist for you.
- family drama
- sisters
- sociopaths
It Happened to Me: My Sister is a Sociopath
I tried to love my sister, the same way I would have loved a handicapped child or one with Down’s Syndrome. But instead of missing a limb or a chromosome, Ellen lacked warm and fuzzy feelings as well as a conscience.
Sports
Metta World Peace Elbowing James Harden Is Just Like That Time I Got Punched by a 13-Year-Old Girl
You may have noticed one of my favorite things to do on xoJane is take a sports headline and write some vaguely-related story about my life as a way of attempting to get you (okay fine: also me) interested in it.
- issues
- stalking
It Happened to Me: I Was Stalked (And I Sent My Stalker to Jail)
I spent 3 months as a zombie, going through the motions by day and putting on a decent show. I was pretty sure I was going to die every night but by day, I had to make money and dinner.
- addiction
- drugs
- friendship
- relationships
It Happened to Me: My Best Friend Is a Heroin Addict
A few years ago I pictured our kids being friends forever, that she would always be my shoulder to lean on at family functions, that we would someday celebrate the birth of each other’s grandchildren. Now I don’t know if I will ever see her again.
- entertainment
- girls
- hbo
- jealousy
- lena dunham
It Happened to Me: I Went to College with HBO's New It Girl Lena Dunham, and I'm Seething with Jealousy
If you had asked me in 2008 who would be end up being the famous one in the 12 -person screenwriting workshop I was enrolled in, I would have said "me."- death
- family drama
- fathers
- grieving
It Happened to Me: I Lost My Father One Year Ago Yesterday
Then lunch time will come, but you won't feel like eating. You will instead feel like turning off all the lights and burying your face in a pillow for an hour, not for a real nap, but just to turn everything off.
- best friends
- boarding school
- mothers
- reform school
- the pot
