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My husband and I have been married for five years and we have two boys (age 2 and 4). We met when he was in the military stationed in my home town of Pensacola, FL. My husband is an Ohio boy, born and raised, and when he separated from the military his first reaction was to move back home. At the time of his separation he was going through a lot and really wanted to be somewhere familiar. I love my husband, so before even thinking of myself I agreed to move. A year after moving to Ohio I realize how much I want to go back home. Our relationship is suffering…

About eight months ago I got out of an abusive relationship that left me with social anxiety and few friends. For the past month or two an old acquaintance from high school and I have been getting to know each other better as we both work for the same company. “John” has been inviting me over with increasing frequency to hang out with some other guys I was acquaintances with in high school (I just graduated college). I’m so happy! I feel like I’ve been accepted into the group. We mostly get together to play video games or drink beer. Recently, we all had a fun night of playing drinking games around…

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 while I bring home about $2700 a month. I have many more bills to pay such as credit card expenses and my…

“I am 63 and my boyfriend is 68 years old. We’ve been in a relationship for 1 1/2 years and may consider marriage soon. But my problem is he has a single ‘play sister’…”

I’ve been in a relationship with a wonderful woman for 4-1/2 years, but we are at a crossroads and cannot get past it. The short story is we can’t agree on where to live. I don’t want to move to her town and have a 1-1/2-hour commute to work for the next 17 years until I retire, and she doesn’t want to move her girls out of their school district (they’re in school another 7 years). I have a son who is going to college next year and moving would create the same commute for him that I would have with my work. I have asked my girlfriend to plan a move…

I am in a relationship with someone I met October of last year. Through March, I have paid for 99% of everything that we do, like dinners, vacations, going out, etc. I make about $50K a year. She makes $140K a year but moved to our area last July and built a house and needed to save a lot of money for closing, the move, etc. Note: she has a dog and, because of that, I’ve done all of the commuting to her apartment, and now to her house, since October. She’s been to my apartment twice in eight months because of the dog situation. So, you can see I’ve made enormous…