About
Hi, I’m Wendy and I launched this site in January, 2011 as a place for people to get compassionate but straight-shooting advice for their relationship issues. DearWendy.com is inspired by the column of the same name, which gained popularity when it was featured regularly on CNN.com in the late aughts.
I was born on Okinawa, Japan in 1976 and spent my childhood in Korea, Japan, and Germany. My roots are in the Midwest where my family spent every summer shuttling between St. Louis, Missouri and Springfield, Illinois. I attended college in Springfield, Missouri (where my parents retired to in 2013) and lived in Chicago for most of my 20s.
A few months before I turned 30, I met my now-husband Drew on a blind date during a weekend trip to New York. After a year and a half of long distance dating, I moved to Manhattan. Drew and I got engaged in Central Park a year and a half later, and were married in Central Park that July. We live in Brooklyn with our fourteen-year-old son and our 10-year-old daughter.
Somewhere along the way from Okinawa to Brooklyn, I picked up a lot about the way people relate to each other and how universal our desires — love, understanding, acceptance and companionship — and the way we’d like to achieve them — the path of least resistance — are. But sometimes we need help figuring out what is what. And that’s where this site comes in. I look forward to hearing from you.
