Articles by Joey Garcia

A reader loves her relationship, but she’s afraid to open up to her boyfriend. What’s really going on?

After eight years of college and a plan to enter the Peace Corps to teach English overseas, a reader finds a partner in Sacramento. Should they let go of the dream?

It’s been four years. How can one reader get over it?

A reader complains about the sex and pot ads surrounding Joey’s column.

Sex bonds us to each other. You’ve confused that connection with love.

Can we have an honest conversation about sexual harassment?

Is her boyfriend being friendly or flirty with others?

A woman catches her 13-year-old son watching a video of a girl from another school masturbating. She makes him delete the text, but what about the girl?

Is this woman’s LinkedIn romance with an oil man the real deal? Or is she being deceived?

There’s an old saying about life, “We must decide whether we are human doings or human beings.”

Where dietitians can’t help this reader, Joey offers spiritual advice.

A long-distance ex desperately wants to be friends, and a God-preaching one wants to have sex again.

Joey lets a college freshman know how to let go of a male friend whose attention she misses, and how an aspiring café owner/singer/environmentalist may not have to choose one path in the end.

If you want something different, disrupt the narrative.

Readers ask how to deal with stress related to empathy, and how to move forward after college.

Learning to say goodbye, and learning to believe in yourself.