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I’m 22 years old and over the summer I dated this girl I fell in love with. But it wasn’t a 50/50 relationship. I seemed to be doing most of the work. So, one night about three months in, I confronted her about it. She was ready to end it there because she told me that “the spark was gone.” And that she “wasn’t feeling it anymore.” Obviously, it hurt, and I told her to give it more time to see if we could reboot the relationship. She said she knew it wasn’t gonna work, but my wish was granted. Ever since then, I began to watch myself. I tried really hard…

I met a girl on a dating app last July and we started talking and flirting. We had both just come out of bad relationships and originally only wanted a friendship from each other. A couple of months down the line we decided to have a go at a long distance relationship. Being 21, this was my first serious relationship and, at 25, her second. I was having problems coping with the distance and rekindled a friendship with a former lover and we exchanged raunchy messages. This continued, on and off, for the first eight months of my relationship with my girlfriend. Now, she and I are having a baby in two…

I am 28, never been married, have a great job, a masters degree, and have been told I am “attractive.” I have been with my 38-year-old boyfriend for about 13 months now. He was married for 13 years and has three biological children (21, 19, and 17) and an adopted daughter turning 7 (he is divorced because his ex cheated on him and got pregnant but he decided to adopt the child so that she would have a father and to maintain parental continuity in his family). He has been divorced for six years, I’m his first serious girlfriend since, and we talk about marriage all the time. Initially, I never thought…

I know he isn’t rich, but it would be really nice if he picked up our bill more often.

Growing up, I was very close with my cousins. I was especially close with my cousin Annie because we were around the same age. When we were 9 or so our parents shipped us all off to summer camp. When we returned, we discovered that her parents had divorced. Her mother had thrown my uncle out of their house and moved her boyfriend in. She also let my uncle take the kids and all of them moved in with us for a while where my parents ended up raising them, for the most part. My uncle suffered from severe alcoholism, which I assume was the underlying cause of the divorce. Things got…

“I’ve been dating my coworker for about six months now. We’re not completely open about our relationship but everyone pretty much knows we’re together.”