Tuffy Luv Sez: Don’t Let Them Walk All Over You
Dear Tuffy Luv,
I’ve always admired that you don’t hold back with your advice. I can tell by reading your columns that you are strong, thoughtful, unafraid, and independent. These are all things that I can be, that I consider myself to be – but sometimes, it feels like all that my independence and strength is really getting me is a lot of pain.
Tuffy Luv Sez: Bad Boy, Bad News
Dear Tuffy Luv, I have been hooking up with a long time friend recently but we have never been anything official. He acts like he likes me, takes me out, says he thinks he is falling in love with me and says how he thinks we should be together. He has quite the playboy/bad boy reputation and for a long time and I couldn’t let myself be anything more than friends with benefits, so I have denied his requests that I be his girlfriend in fear of getting hurt.

Tuffy Luv Sez: It’s Over. Let it Go
Dear Tuffy Luv, Ten months ago I met the best guy I have ever been with. We have/had the best story ever. We met at the airport on the way home from separate study abroad trips, same flight home, we started talking at the gate. After a first “date” and a visit from him, he asked me out.
Tuffy Luv Is A Sucker For Luv
I’m suffering from heartbreak. My boyfriend is leaving me. Sort of. But only after I left him. Sort of…I’m suffering from heartbreak. My boyfriend is leaving me. Sort of. But only after I left him. Sort of…Here is my situation, I have the much coveted/dreaded position of broke but oh so sexy older musician’s girlfriend. (He’s 26, I’m 20). My man is a drummer, and a very talented one at that. Before I met him, he toured with a band for a few months around Europe. When I started dating him a year and a half ago, he was (and still is) in a local garage band with a couple friends, playing local shows recording a demo, and not really going anywhere besides that.
Tuffy Luv Says: Get Comfortable with Sex, Girl
Dear Tuffy Luv,
I recently lost my virginity about a month ago. I’ve had sex a couple times with this guy (we’re dating) and I’m always on the bottom. What do I do while he’s…going into me? I always feel bad because I’m just lying there while he’s going at it pretty hard. I haven’t tried anything because I don’t really want make a mistake and be embarrassed or something.
Tuffy Luv Says: He’s Telling You He’s Not Into You
Dear Tuffy Luv, Last semester I met this guy and we started hanging out a lot. We were never officially together, but he was my first everything and we had a great time for a few months.

I made the mistake of assuming he was with me exclusively, and kind of freaked out on him when I found out he had been with other girls and still had contact with his ex who he had been with for years.
Tuffy Luv Keeps the Faith
I’ve been dating my boyfriend for almost all of college (we’re seniors) and he’s my perfect guy. I never believed in soul mates until I met him. We get along great, we have so much in common, we have almost all the same friends, and it’s just a great situation. Except, it turns out that he won’t marry me–unless I convert to Catholicism.

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Tuffy Luv Sez: Frenemies Is Old Hat
Dear Tuffy Luv, I moved for my senior year of high school and at the beginning had a little trouble making friends because it’s a small town, everyone knows everyone, etc. Finally I did start making some, and one of the first ones was this girl, Peggy. Peggy is one of those people who is overly nice to everyone, so it really wasn’t surprising she was one of the first people to approach me.
Tuffy Luv Sez: Back Off But Don’t Back Down
Dear Tuffy Luv, I have been seeing this guy R for almost a year. I really like him and he really likes me, but he is really insecure and is under is Dad’s thumb. For as long as R can remember his dad has been telling him he’ll never amount to anything. On top of that, his dad is mentally, emotionally, verbally and physically abusive towards him, his siblings and his mom.
Tuffy Luv Sez: Casual LDR?! WTF?!
Dear Tuffy Luv,

I recently graduated from college and moved back home because I got a job offer. Around the time college was ending, I was casually seeing this new guy. We currently live about three hours away from each other and are in very different situations; I have moved back in with my parents and have a serious job, whereas he still lives with roommates and works hard but parties a lot harder…
Tuffy Luv Gets Bugged About Beds
So to start, this is humiliating, but last Friday night I peed my bed. I’m a 24 year old grad student and live in the dorms at my school. I have no idea what happened, and this was a completely random event. By no means am I a bedwetter…anyways, my roommate found out (it was pretty easy, she was awake when I woke up soaked…), which was even more embarrassing.
Tuffy Luv Hates The Power Struggle
I was stupid. I know I was stupid. I slept with the guy I’ve liked for a couple months in a casual hook-up sort of way. It may have happened more than once. I was sober (so was he). Yeah… not sure why I thought this was a semi-OK-ish idea either.

Tuffy Luv Evils Your Twin
Dear Tuffy Luv, I’m not even sure how this all started to be honest. I have a best friend, I’ll call her Jane, who’s been dating this guy, I’ll call him Ron, for a couple months. They fight a lot but he’s her first real “love” and a really good friend of mine. I happen to be madly in love with Ron’s best friend, Landon.