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I am 28 and I’m in a serious relationship with another woman who is 30. She has an 11-year-old son from a past marriage and has been divorced for 10 years. She mostly had long-term relationships with men and a couple of flings with women. I am her most serious lesbian relationship. We are deeply in love with each other and she has said she wants to marry me someday. We live together in my house. We have been together for 8 months and things have been mostly wonderful. My biggest issue with her is that she won’t come out to her son and refuses to even discuss it with me. Her…

“I haven’t always had a good relationship with my sister-in-law, but it got better for a while. Then, when I told her I was pregnant, she didn’t wish me congratulations.”

For New Year’s Eve my friends and I want to go to a party so we can dance and have fun, but my boyfriend wants me to spend it with him and his friends at his home, which I think is kind of boring because, instead of dancing, we will be drinking and I don’t know his friends that well. I tried to convince him to come with me (my friends want that too) and he said he will but he will not have fun because it’s not his kind of party and, of course, that will make me feel bad. He was also saying that it would be better if we…

“I’m in a great relationship with a guy I love. We have been together a year and a half and have talked about the future a lot, but there’s one problem.”

My husband and I have been married for several years now. He wasn’t sure he wanted kids when we first started dating, but by the time we got married he said he thought he would probably agree to them at some point. I was pretty sure I wanted at least one, but not 100% sure. We had (and still have) a great relationship, so I figured we’d work it out–and we got married. About two years ago, he said he was ready to have a baby. I was too, so I was delighted. We agreed that we would only have one. We discussed it and thought that would best fit our lifestyle,…

I have been dating my boyfriend for 3-1/2 years and we have a 2-year-old daughter together. For the entirety of our relationship we have split the bills – first three ways with our old roommate and now just two ways since she moved out two years ago. We split the rent, power, phone, cable, and internet, as well as the car payment and insurance (we share my car). He has been working the same job since our daughter was born and only brings home a little over $1700 a month after taxes while I bring home about $2700 a month after taxes. I have many more bills to pay such as credit…

My fiancé, “Dan,” (28) and I (24) have been together nearly three years. Before we met he moved in with his mom to help her out after her divorce. I also live with my single mother as I was broke after college. Now his mom is talking about selling her house and my fiancé has every intention of buying it. He wants me to move in and I do not want to live there under any circumstance, especially considering he intends to co-buy it with his brother (30) and his brother’s girlfriend. His mother also has no plans for after she sells, and she has even suggested she just stay and rent…

I have been dating “Eric” for a year and a half. The moment we met, we instantly hit it off. Last month, we got engaged. It was a great engagement for two weeks. Then, the fights started happening, primarily because of our parents fighting about certain things. Last week, we started arguing again (about the same issues that involve my parents, his parents, etc). It got so heated that I gave him back the engagement ring, the promise ring he gave me, and the diamond pendant he gave me as a Christmas gift and walked out. I actually only gave the last one because he said, “If I were a petty man,…

My wife and I recently found out that my sister organized a surprise birthday party for my mom’s and dad’s joint 70th birthdays. It was arranged while my wife and I were on our honeymoon, so we missed out on celebrating with them. My wife found out by accident a few weeks later while talking to a couple who attended. Nobody told us before the event, and my mom, dad, and sister never mentioned anything after we’d returned. When my wife found out and told me, I rang my sister straight away. She didn’t answer, so I texted her and she replied that she had texted me in the summer saying she…