
Here’s what we’re discussing this week in the forums:
DW Community Catch-up Thread (Formerly ‘Anyone going on awesome dates?’)
“I Had Sex with Someone Else While We Were Broken Up”
I don’t know what to do with my life
Here’s what we’re discussing this week in the forums:
DW Community Catch-up Thread (Formerly ‘Anyone going on awesome dates?’)
“I Had Sex with Someone Else While We Were Broken Up”
I don’t know what to do with my life
I get a lot of emails from people who feel burdened by a secret they’re keeping from a significant other. Often these secrets are about cheating, but not always. Sometimes they’re about applying for jobs in other cities or having been married before or having an STI. There have even been a few people who had secret children they hadn’t told their partners about. In my own social circle, I have a few friends who keep pretty innocuous secrets from their spouses, like taking secret days off from work to have a whole “me day” without feeling guilty about it (these are moms, obviously, who play hooky while their spouses are at work and their kids are at school or daycare). I’ve known people who have regular lunch dates with exes and don’t tell their current partners because they don’t want to deal with the jealousy.
Have you kept a secret from a significant other? Did you (or would you) ever share the secret? Why did/do you keep the secret?
(This post was originally published in 2017).
Hi! Happy June. It feels like summer here even though my kids still have four more weeks of school. (NYC public schools go later than anywhere else in the country. We start late, too, and then we have off all the major holidays of five different religions, which stretches the school year to the very end of June.) Anyway, we’re heading to Montreal as soon as school is out in a few weeks, so if you have any tips, let me know. What about you? Any travel plans this summer? Or summer bucket list plans?
Hope you have a great weekend, and here are a few links you might appreciate, including how to make friends and what beige flags in dating mean.
Here’s what we’re discussing this week in the forums:
Is it normal for your other half to fancy someone else?
How do I fix myself and be self sufficient after a series of bad relationships?
Why does he say he just wants to be friends but doesn’t act that way?