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“A little over a year ago, I started dating my best friend of 14 years. He is friends with his ex, “Jackie,” from before we even met, which I was fine with…until recently.”

“I am one of the very few early-mid twenty-something people I know who has a full-time job in her field of choice with benefits and a good income.”

“I’m in a new-ish relationship and I’m finding that my feelings of doubt about the future are starting to sap all the fun out of it.”

“He and his ex-wife separated about eight months prior to us meeting, and the divorce decree was final about five months ago.”

“In the past three weeks, I got married and started a new job. The catch? My husband just got an amazing job offer at the opposite end of the state.”

“There are seven sets of couples in our circle of friends who have been very close for the past 9-10 years.”

“Pete” and I started dating this past June. Pete is 29 and seems to be a bit of a commitment-phobe as his longest relationship was less than a year; I am 25 and have been in two major relationships (including one emotionally-abusive marriage from which I had just gotten a divorce in May). But after only two months with Pete, I realized I had never been in love in the past. There is just something about him that I have never felt about anyone before. We had an amazing connection that scared me, so I held back a little bit. He seemed to have trouble expressing himself as well, and I was…

Over ten years age, when my wife and I were two years into our marriage, my sister-in-law — my wife’s sister — asked to move in with us for six months to attend a nearby university. I figured six months couldn’t be too bad so we said “okay.” Well, six months turned into three years. To be fair, we enabled the 2.5-year extension, but it was a big mistake. Shortly after my SIL moved in, we put our 1-year-old daughter in daycare. As is often the case, she kept coming home with colds. After about six months she developed serious pneumonia and was hospitalized for five days. After this, my wife and…

“I have been dating my boyfriend for a year and a half and we recently moved in together. “

“My mother is behaving in ways I don’t relate to. Should I be worried?”