Sydnee Lyons

Bio

Sydnee is a lifestyle writer who loves the East Coast, Christmas movies and all things canine. She has dedicated years of her life to watching Friends reruns and has concluded that Ross and Rachel were, in fact, on a break.

9 Red Flags That Your Partner Is Too Controlling, Toxic, & Possibly Dangerous

By Sydnee Lyons

Relationship red flags can be easy to miss (or easy to ignore) but if you think there might be signs your partner is controlling, you should be on high alert. The more involved you get with a controlling partner — the deeper your emotional…

I Flirted Like Victoria From “Corpse Bride” & This Is What Happened

By Sydnee Lyons

“I always hoped to find someone I was deeply in love with, someone to spend the rest of my life with. Silly, isn’t it?” It isn’t, really, but I would never say this. Not even if my fiancé left me in the middle of the night to elope with a literal…

My Partner & I Only Texted Once A Day For A Week & It Was Surprisingly Hard

By Sydnee Lyons

Disclaimer: I text my partner a lot. I just didn’t realize it until I my partner and I barely texted. I decided to try an experiment — for an entire week, we'd limit ourselves to sending just one text each. How hard could it be? In true Scorpio…

I Stayed With My Partner After He Cheated & Learned An Important Lesson

By Sydnee Lyons

“I’m never going to be that girl,” I thought... and then I was. It wasn’t until then that I understood that girl and I wanted to give that girl a hug, not a self-righteous lecture. I can still list every reason I stayed with my partner after he…

My First One-Night Stand Helped Me Realize I'm Demisexual & Here's What That Means

By Sydnee Lyons

If classic Hollywood movies are your thing, I’m about to ruin Pulp Fiction for you. That’s the movie my date and I watched before my first one-night stand kind of failed and helped me realized that I'm demisexual. In other words, I only develop…

If You & Your Partner Never Show PDA, Here's What It Means About Your Relationship

By Sydnee Lyons

Judging on my past relationships, I'd say I'm not into PDA. Like, at all. In high school, I hated when my boyfriend would try to get me to sit on his lap or side-hug when we were out with friends. I vividly remember intentionally sitting across from…

I Kept A Dating App Diary For A Week After Moving Back Home & It Surprised Me

By Sydnee Lyons

Hey, you! Yeah, you swiping aimlessly through Tinder profiles on your phone. Obligaswiping just might be the worst millennial dating trend of them all, so cut it out. I admit, in a dating rut, I’ve fallen into the same mindless rhythm of swiping…

5 Photos Of Moms Walking Their Daughters Down The Aisle That Are So Incredibly Sweet

By Sydnee Lyons

Here's a wedding ritual you don't see too often: photos of moms walking their daughters down the aisle. In fact, I can't think of any wedding traditions that explicitly call for the mother of the bride. The groom and his mother typically share a…

4 Photos Of Dads Walking Their Daughters Down The Aisle That Will Make You Cry

By Sydnee Lyons

Traditionally, a father walks his daughter down the aisle on her wedding day as a ceremonial nod to the idea of giving her away. If you can get past the patriarchal implications of this, it's easy to view the practice simply as a thoughtful way of…

5 Most Stereotypically "Dad" Ways Dads Have Gotten Involved In Their Kids' Love Lives

By Sydnee Lyons

My dad is a big guy. I know people say this all the time and it's true when you're a kid because your dad's probably the biggest guy you know but, like, my dad is so tall that it's always the first thing people mention when they meet him. I expected…