Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s advice column.

Everyone does not have more friends than you, even though, as a study at UBC Vancouver indicated, plenty of people believe their friends all have more friends. Everyone is not going to parties you’re not invited to, meeting a wide array of people across all backgrounds and slices of life, who come together in a rich…

Fergie (the singer) and Josh Duhamel (the actor whose delicious name has the word “ham” in it), have let the world know that they’re splitting up after eight years of marriage.

Back in 2010, before Katy Perry clung to her fame by agreeing to star in the ill-fated reboot of American Idol, releasing embarrassing, meme-filled music videos, and participating in days-long livestreams, she did it the old-fashioned way: by starting a relationship with someone way out of left field. In her case,…

Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s advice column.

Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.

I’m old. So old that my introduction to “porn” was hardcover books in my parent’s den. When I was a teenager, Judy Blume’s Wifey was hardcore imagery for me. Eventually, I was an adult and I could order OnDemand movies from Comcast. Then I got semi-knowledgeable about porn and what I liked. While I understood the…

Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.

The most beautifully awkward show in the world right now is Date Night Live, a Lifetime series in which (mostly) single people across the country endure the bliss, uncertainty, disappointment and confusion of a blind date, played out in real time.

Last Thursday, 24-year-old model/artist/vlogger Dayna Frazer revealed a personal tragedy to her hundreds of thousands of fans by posting a crying selfie to her Instagram story alongside the caption, “When you find out your bf cheated on you lol.” Her followers immediately (and understandably) assumed the cheater was…

Earlier this week a man named Justin took a gal named Lisette out for a date in Washington, DC and the couple fell happily in love! Just kidding; Justin ended up scheduling six dates for the same night and all the women ran into one another, ultimately ditched Justin, and became friends.

Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.

Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.

Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband Will have had to deal with swinger rumors for a good part of their 23-year relationship, along with nonstop divorce and open relationship rumors.

Welcome to Dear Jane, Jezebel’s new advice column.

Welcome to The Small Stuff, a sporadic series about liberating ourselves from the (often dumb) parenting habits we hate.

Ten years ago, I muscled a guy down the aisle. We had been together for six years, the relationship was becalmed, and I had pretty much decided that marriage was the only thing that would blow us out of our doldrums: We’d be official, we’d have kids, we’d have a decent set of dish towels. He reluctantly agreed.

You actively look for pregnant ladies to give your seat to on the bus. You always hold open doors for strangers. You help your friend lug a sofa across town and up five flights to their new apartment. You’re a nice person.

Millions of people exist in New York City only to be ignored in plain sight, to live in our peripheral. Master of None’s sixth episode in its second season captures the spirit of these secondary characters through a masterful set of vignettes about the lives of a doorman, a deaf cashier and an immigrant cab driver.…

As any woman unfortunately knows, with more technology comes more ways to be harassed. In India, the rapid cell phone boom has led to an unintended consequence: Men are routinely dialing random numbers as a way to meet women.