pha. 1 month

The smell of poppers makes me physically gag.

manuel_lll 1 month

When people say insecurity causes cheating it’s just sounds so absurd, because why would insecurity cause you to cheat on someone who you said you are committed to I believe people cheat because it’s part of their nature and also maybe seeking validation but isn’t a relationship supposed to give you that feeling to feel appreciated and be yourself so if you can’t be who you are, feel seen or validated in a relationship what is the point of being one?

tomasderico 2 months

A lost soul with no intention of improving themselves will crave “love,” yet continue to find lust instead. There is a quiet sadness in going through life unaware that the patterns you blame on others may begin within yourself. Growth starts when accountability replaces avoidance — and healing begins when you finally choose to confront the person in the mirror.

zayn 1 month

wait nvm first gotta clean my gallery a lot has happened since budapest not gonna lie (apologies if you have to read my yaps, but i treat this app as a diary)

lordmarch 1 month

Oh, I really like the art of noticing. Just for a moment, all yours thoughts, worries and even feelings vanished away. Leaving you all alone with yourself and existence. Being there, in the present moment. You don’t have to feel anything in particular, no fear, no joy, no sadness, no anger or anxiety. Just balance.

milly 2 months

No no there’s this really fun and cool thing about living alone where you’ll be sitting there and it’s like “wow I haven’t spoken to anyone out loud in 3 days” so you think “huh, I’ll go to the shops and then I’ll at least speak to the people at checkout. That’s something right?” But oh wait…everything is self check out now, still haven’t said a word out loud except the couple of times you swore under your breath or when you called yourself an idiot when you dropped something yesterday. You stand trying to decide if you should ring somebody up and just say a couple of things to them just to make sure you’re still at least CAPABLE of talking but can’t decide who, you briefly smile at a stranger that walks past and then just go back inside.

hmln_leo 1 month

10 years of blonde… what’s your favourite track? Mine‘s probably pink + white, or solo?? Actually, I can’t choose

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arcashade 1 month

Can we admit the best stories are the ones where the unexpected happens. Where the main character has their own linear plans interrupted. Where chance encounters forever shape their lives with new friendships, new perspectives, and experiences. Loosen your grip on what should be, and allow the page to turn, the bad experience, the bad job, let life surprise you. Remind yourself that what you see is temporary that a new chapter will always arrive, anchor yourself in how you want to feel in each chapter, not what exact outcome you need to occur in order to feel the beautiful things. More gratitude, more thankfulness, more love.

manuel_lll 1 month

I have never been in a relationship, but yet I’m scared to get one ? so this question I asked myself every day. Don’t you like being in a relationship or are you scared to fall in love with someone because to me falling in love with you means staying with you for a lifetime,building dreams, creating crazy memories and loving each other in every version of ourselves as we go altogether, I want me to be your resting place and where we get to share every day to details, no matter how tiny or silly that conversation may be, I want us to find joy in each other, happiness and dreams, even though when you are at a busy time in your life or our time in your life, I am not scared to be in a relationship. I am scared to falling deeply for someone and maybe losing myself to that person and they decide to leave one day. because love can be scary thing what if I feel lust instead of love?, What if I see your wrong as right , but falling in love it’s easy in someway but to love someone takes a lifetime so I want to love someone and not fall in love

sailormars 1 month

Journaling 101: Befriending you ego. Your ego holds all your wants, your needs, and your desires. It also holds all the blockages from those things. In life I have learned that when you demonize your shadows, your shadows demonize you. To become one with your dream life and make it inevitable, the work is simple. Befriend the voices other taught you to silence, spend time developing this relationships. They are your guides and protectors, the parts of you that witnessed the hardship, that learned the lessons, and they won’t give you access to the life you want until they are acknowledged for all the hard work they’ve put in protecting you. Run this by your therapist, take what resonates and leave what doesn’t. If your goal is to make an impact in this lifetime, befriend and love the parts of you the world decided were unloveable. 💋

javvier 2 months

A little update since my last post… On Monday I’ll finally find out whether I’ll need chemotherapy or not. I’m definitely nervous about it, but at least I’m getting closer to having some more answers. There are still some genetic test results to come, so the journey isn’t over yet, but I’m trying to take it one step at a time and stay positive. 🤞🏼💪🏼

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phoenixblade 2 months

When your parents are Gen X and a boomer so your slang and pop culture repertoire covers 6 decades and noone understands what your saying

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dave21 1 month

Share your favorite clothing brands with me! I love unique and stylish clothes. Please ❤️❗️

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its-ema 2 months

When I hugged him, I felt a kind of peace, as if something inside me was becoming whole with him. Now it’s over, and he’s no longer there. What’s left inside me feels like it’s poisoning me. How do I let go of what’s left?

jayshellito 2 months

I’ve been “out” for 3 years now, sober for 5. I’ve never been one for hookups and find myself feeling so alienated from the gay community. I don’t drink or party or rave, I don’t know have meaningless hookups, and they seem to be the only ways gays reach each other. Feeling very alone

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psychedelicprince 1 month

the new apple ceo is daddy af

murtmun 1 month

I have internships comin up and I dont want to. It feels like i am steering myself towards my future and its gonna lock me in place. Tomorrow summer vacation is over btw, goodluck soldiers who start with me and who have already started!!

jlwalter93 1 month

What does it mean to be known, when the one person who knew you is no longer here? Am I unknowable?

die 2 months

“- I thought I was over him… but I love him. - Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. - But I really miss him. - So miss him! Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it. You're just afraid to let go of the last bits of him because then you'll be really alone, and you're scared to death of what will happen if you're really alone. But here's what you gotta understand: If you clear out all that space in your mind that you're using right now to obsess about this guy, you'll have a vacuum there, an open spot - a doorway. And guess what the universe will do with the doorway? It will rush in. God will rush in, and fill you with more love than you ever dreamed. So stop using that boy to block that door. Let it go."

alex27b.c 1 month

I knew it was too good to be true. 😓 probably thinks I’m such a fool.

hmln_leo 2 months

Your boy has mixed feelings about moving to a middle ish big ish sized city in southern Germany 🥲🧚

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jarrodt83 1 month

New gym crush just dropped

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p.ierre 2 months

I almost bought an $80 journal. I didn’t know it was $80. The girl who made the journal was doing a pop up at the stationary store I frequent. I wanted to show my support so I’m like “yeah girl, I’ll buy your little journal 💅🏽” I ask her if I can buy it at the register after I’ve looked around and they were persistent I pay right there which was fine or whatever but like I don’t even know if I want it all that bad, you know? She rings me up, I’m chatting or whatever. Mind you!!! My first question was how much do they cost, which she acknowledges but doesn’t answer. So I’m like yall think I’m joking. So she rings me up, $78.something change. I said audibly and validly “GOD DAYUM!!” Looked that little white girl up and down and said “look mama I can’t afford you” and walked in the opposite direction.

soupwaylee 2 months

why is the ☎️ phone call ☎️ emoji so aggressively red

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sqnutkin 2 months

Anyone wanna go on a date to the Tracy Emin retrospective @ Tate Modern ?

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rpacurucu 2 months

I’ve read lots of people saying that they want vulnerability and a real connection, but at the same time, nobody wants someone to be “too much” on the first date, because being too much can be scary lol.

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sailormars 1 month

One of the most beautiful realizations one can have in life is knowing that people don’t owe you presence, love, or attention.

jasonobviously 2 months

THE LIAR IS ME I lived a lie for most of my life A lie so lived-in I could no longer distinguish I from the lie. And if you asked me then, I would not have seen. I could not. I did not want to be a liar, but a liar I was— Even to me. The lie was first, the story I told myself. I told myself I could be two. One for the world one kept from view. The me I thought of as me Was not the me I had hidden, The me I had forbidden— that was the real me. But now, the veil was torn, And the me from the shadows was pulled into the light. Then I realised, the me I thought of as me Had always been a puppet of the me I refused to see. And the light I now stood in was not the black and white that sustained the lie, But a kaleidoscope of colour and life. Because everything before Had been calculated, categorised: Right and wrong Saint and sinner Divine and demonic But now, I see. The me I tried to cast out, The me I tried to pray away Was always the me I wanted to be.

datboi_ash 2 months

He never considered me his bf and yet I kept loving him and caring for him and sending him money I hardly get to see him in person and hardly have a good conversation everyday just a simple hi hello and Hru texts that’s all and also but hes in the hookup culture and that’s how we met just and just today after asking to be his bf he said no and that he hardly knows me like that and doesn’t want a bf and since then I have been like left him on delivered and didn’t replied back but I really want him and he’s my second person I have ever now fall in love after my ex ….etc

fav0r1t3_ 2 months

How did we become so good at making each other feel so alone

wilelizo 2 months

no one really talks about the huge shift in personality when you are in your 30’s where you want to keep your circle small and no longer want to be impressive…you just want to be stable, well rested and free of anything and anyone that drains your energy

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manuel_lll 1 month

Before being in a relationship with anyone I want to be both physically and emotionally attracted to you , I want us both to be really sure that we both want each other

havi 2 months

Me seeing all these entrepreneur gays on Hinge is really inspiring me to leave my hell of a job

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nathan91 2 months

Armor, Amor There was a season I built without wanting to build, moved through days like a soldier who forgot the war was over, stacking small victories with hands that didn’t care if they were mine. I didn’t want to be alive. And still, I was unstoppable. Funny, the things you can carry when you’ve stopped asking why you’re carrying them. Armor. Amor. Maybe not the same root, no shared blood in the dictionary, but try loving anyone without first setting the shield down. Try surviving anything without first picking it up. Paulo said the universe conspires to help you get what you want. El universo conspira para que realices tu deseo. Nobody says what happens when you want nothing, when the wanting itself goes quiet, and you still show up, still build, still finish the thing. Maybe that’s its own kind of conspiracy. Maybe the universe doesn’t wait for desire. Maybe it just waits for you to move, armor on, heart still somewhere underneath it, beating on principle. But when the will comes back, when I want to be here again, when aliveness isn’t a chore but a current, that’s when the armor finally comes down. That’s when I stop surviving the wanting and start becoming it. And when you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it. I believe that now. Not because I always wanted to live. But because even when I didn’t, something in me kept building anyway, and called it nothing, and it was everything.

manuel_lll 1 month

How do you deal with a one sided love ?

manuel_lll 2 months

I will never understand the concept of cheating , yes we are allowed to be attracted to other people besides our partners that’s our biology are programmed but the way you control that feeling define your commitment to your relationship . I might feel attracted to to you when seeing for the first or second time but my attraction towards my partner is on a whole different level, before you decide to be in a relationship you already decided to commit to this person and not just go around have multiple flings and even tho with time they say the spark fades why not try to love every version of that person as time passes ??? , don’t be in a relationship when you know you are not ready to commit or trying using them to fill a gap What do you think ?

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lav 2 months

No one talks about how challenging it is being a sober person in queer spaces, usually revolved around party drugs. It’s like I’m an outcast in my own community. 😢

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efrainj 1 month

If you get the wish of date a fictional character, with him being gay, who will you choose?

pha. 2 months

What are you guys’ thoughts on gays who feel compelled to specify they’re “gay and NOT queer?” Always something that gets a subtle side-eye from me, but maybe I’m being unreasonable?

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lnoliveira 1 month

Hey guys! I’m looking to connect with fellow gaymers and tech/finance enthusiasts around here. I’d love to discuss about smart money moves, while also slinging recommendations for our favorite games. Feel free to reach out in 🇵🇹PT/🇬🇧EN/🇫🇷FR/🇪🇸ES or 🇩🇪DE!

manuel_lll 2 months

When someone asks me what are qualities you expect or makes you interested in someone The first thing I say is being "passionate" not just about love or your relationship but about your own self like your dreams ,I want a kind of partner who would prioritize our relationship but first prioritize his dreams and goals first ,I am like a stranger to those dreams they had always been there ,I consider your dreams your first love so always be passionate about them ,even tho your dreams takes up most of your time I would understand as long as we have that honest communication between us .that's all I need because seeing your dreams soar high would be part of my wishes too

goldntimelover 2 months

i had never thought i would miss someone so much just by seeing them from afar

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manuel_lll 2 months

Love the feeling or love the action For me, love in action would always be my first choice. I want a relationship where my partner would be willing to take my hand and dance with me in the midst of a hundred or even a thousand people who object to our love. Where I would laugh at their jokes in public, even when they aren’t funny, simply because seeing them happy makes me happy. I want us to create a safe place for each other, where we can pour out our troubles and somehow turn them into sunshine. Where he would join me in the rain, singing along to every Olivia Dean song. Where getting ready becomes their favorite fashion show, and whenever we’re out, we hold hands, jump around, walk side by side, and enjoy the simplest moments together. I want us to notice when something feels off with each other without having to be told. To look at them and ask, “Are you really okay?” when we know they’re going through a difficult time. To be patient with each other, to choose each other, and to love every version of each other. I want to learn how to love someone the way they want to be seen and understood. I want someone who would listen to me talk about my day and somehow make it their favorite part of each day. That’s love to me. Love in action. The kind of love where you don’t just say you love someone—you learn them, notice them, understand them, choose them, and show them every day. That’s how you should learn to love someone.

thotanist 1 month

Dolly’s gone - I’m not crying, you are 😭

clumsyalien 2 months

Is hookup culture ruining dating for monogamous gay individuals? It comes as passive aggressive if you’re on a dating app and you don’t agree to a hookup…

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lax 1 month

422 Made 5 simple dinner dish for my friends 💪🏻

kingjoe 1 month

The gay community has had enough odds against them. They do not need to be vilified with fake stigmas like biphobia. Yall know damn well why gays don’t trust yall in gay spaces. Knock it off lol

maxixix 2 months

did you guys know cara delevinge released a pop song? bc it isnt great but i lowk fuck with it

zhaoxinhao 2 months

哈喽，Im from China I'd like to make friends with people from other countries 😭😭It's my first time using this app, and I'm not familiar with it.

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mostlyval 1 month

there’s a storm and i’m about to fall asleep. b l i s s

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carlos17 1 month

How is it for newbies that aren’t out and nervous?

luigidelucaaa 1 month

it’s time to start dating again - downloaded Raya.

murtmun 2 months

“I love him so much, I would die for him ❤️” Ok, but would you help him move all of his stuff & assemble ikea furniture for two days straight with his parents? Theres more love in giving then there is in giving up everything for a person. Maybe has something to do with setting healthy boundaries?

jonesy 2 months

Anyone else have those moments when a stranger is shocked you don’t have children (and I personally don’t want to) but you live in a conservative state and don’t have the energy so you just smile and nod?

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