At Home With Suzanne Westenhoefer
Suzanne Westenhoefer, the lesbian community’s favorite stand-up comic, sits in her pajamas, feet up, laundry churning in the next room. “The cat is staring at me,” she says. It wants cat treats, but Suzanne is stuck on the couch, her foot wrapped in a “storm trooper boot” in an extended recovery from ankle surgery. Olly (the cat) will have to wait for those treats.

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From the U-Haul to the Long Haul:
Five couples share the keys to their success in relationships of 10, 15, even 30 years together

It’s finally happened: you’ve met the love of your life. Life is a love-smitten, passionate cliché: you’re doing all the silly things we do when we’re in love – radiating sunshine and roses, daydreaming about waking up next to this glorious woman every day for the rest of your life, and subsisting primarily on passion. Before long, you’ve rented the mother of all lesbian clichés – the U-Haul – and Hers and Hers have suddenly become the sonorous “Ours.”

Unfortunately, the falling-in-love part is usually the most exciting, easiest, and headiest part of a relationship. It’s staying in love – happily – that tends to trip us up. Nothing can sustain the same intensity of the early years’ passion-fueled honeymoon phase, but for those couples who communicate and respect each other, who have the same basic core values and beliefs, and who work at keeping their relationship strong, the post-honeymoon years can offer emotional fulfillment and love that only a long-term relationship can create.

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