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Matt’s Substack

Matt Bays

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Latest Issues

Grief: The Echo of Lost Love

I think I’ve finally had to concede that I’m depressed. How I’ll treat it is uncertain, but I have come to understand that I’m losing whatever battle this has been over the last month.

I’ve not been feeling myself. It happens. Every one of...

8 days ago
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The Divorce Script

I’m divorced. Seems half the world is… or will be.

For many years, all my life really, I’ve found it’s very rare to hear of divorce without great contention. A family feud. Hatred and storytelling. The search for validation by some. For vi...

12 days ago
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Dating Apps Aren’t The Problem. The Way We Use Them Is.

The first time I downloaded a dating app, I closed my blinds. That’s not a metaphor. I physically walked across the room, pulled them shut, and wondered what I’d gotten myself into.

Why?

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3 months ago
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Nineteen Years. One Morning in Porto

I once had a friend say, “Life is good.” The moment he said it, he realized how cliché it sounded, and added, “Whatever that means.” We both smiled.

Nineteen years ago today, I got sober from alcohol. I was a different man then. Living in...

3 months ago
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First Breath

I’ve been writing for a very long time. Wrote my first book in my mid-twenties. Maybe you did too—the book we laugh about now but learned something through the process of getting it out of us.

When I was first attempting to get published,...

5 months ago
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  • Matt Bays

    Author of memoirs Finding God in the Ruins, Leather & Lace. HuffPost, Out Mag, NYTimes, Sourcebooks & The Advocate writer. Podcaster of How to Find & Keep a Gay Man. American living in Porto, Portugal with husband Chris. 🇵🇹

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