When your abusive boyfriend shows up looking for you, this is how it goes down. — Y’all know I have been over and over Safety for the Single Lady. We’ve talked about statistics, plans, and 800 799 SAFE until I’m blue in the face. It’s because I don’t want anyone to be a story I come across one day. I have a few of y’all that…

Well, well, well…if it isn’t the day of love upon us…Hold on, give me just a second, I’m feeling a little nauseated. Look, I would love to sit here and tell all of you I’m thrilled about another Valentine’s Day in Ms. Macons’ stilettos, but I would be bald-faced lying…

Long before I started writing to you fine folks here on Medium, I wrote a series of articles for single women and their safety. This was largely due to all of dumb ass things I was seeing the single women around me perpetrate. From going on dates with men from…

Yeah, there’s no fucking way I’m doing that. — I see a lot of ladies writing sex columns these days, and for a hot second, I thought about it. Don’t worry, I remembered exactly why I don’t write about sex in about 2 seconds. The shit they write about, though, what the fuck? I really don’t think I could…

It’s always the most dramatic scene ever. — That’s me in the photo. Just your regular ol’ writer and sometimes a Superhero on the weekends, but only when the need should arise. Not a model, not 22, just me. I thought that at this age, at this junction, in my life, I wouldn’t have these problems any longer. …

The Holier Than Thou Throne looks awfully uncomfortable, though. There a very few things a woman can say that will have me angry enough to tear into her publicly. I’m just not that woman. …

It’s time to assign some culpability. — How long would you be comfortable with a rapist and child pornographer around your child? A week? A month? Several months? If it were me, I wouldn’t sign up for a moment of sharing the same air as one of these monsters, but we’ve seen many times, there are a…

It has happened. The worst. — In Texas, a man has filed a lawsuit against three women in Houston who helped his ex-wife terminate a pregnancy. Marcus Silva, who has been countersued and called a “serial abuser”, is suing the women who helped his ex-wife escape his clutches and obtain an abortion via medication. Silva obtained…

Forget being your fan. They’re your enemy, and probably your worst one. — Like a lot of women my age, I’ve survived a few relationships that toxic doesn’t begin to explain. If we’re being honest, they were abusive. Today, I was reminded of the absolute bottom of the barrel, hands down, and if I told you he’s the worst person I’ve ever known…