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I’ve been with my boyfriend for two years and six months. Lately, we have had lots of arguments and he started to change and now he is moving out. It started after he took me to meet his parents in Australia. We had talked about marriage with his family and we agreed to get married next year and now all of a sudden he’s telling me he is not ready and he wants space to think! But I have seen the engagement ring in the wardrobe for about a year. Don’t you think that’s odd? Anyway, he is moving out now and trying to be all nice until he goes. Do you…

In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: Three years ago I married my husband. Our situation is definitely weird. I had just turned 18 when we met. He was 20. We only dated about a month and a half before we got engaged. He asked me to marry him a week or so before he left for basic training in the army and he was gone the first few months we were married so we never spent time together. He shortly realized he didn’t want the army life and got out. Since then,…

New readers, welcome to Dear Wendy, a relationship advice blog. Read some of the most popular Dear Wendy posts here. If you don’t find the info you need in this column, please visit the Dear Wendy archives or the forums (you can even start your own thread), do a search in the search bar, or submit a question for advice at wendy(AT)dearwendy.com. I recently gave birth, but I broke up with my ex, who is also the baby’s father and currently in jail, before I found out I was pregnant. I didn’t want him to be a part of his daughter’s life because of the way he treated me. Now his family…

It’s time again for Shortcuts. For every question, I’ll give my advice in just a few sentences, because sometimes the answer to a person’s question is so obvious and the need to hear it so great, being as clear and frank as possible is simply the best way to go.

New readers, welcome to Dear Wendy, a relationship advice blog. Read some of the most popular Dear Wendy posts here. If you don’t find the info you need in this column, please visit the Dear Wendy archives or the forums (you can even start your own thread), do a search in the search bar, or submit a question for advice at wendy(AT)dearwendy.com. In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: I live in India and have been going out with this guy for over two years now. I’m 23 and he’s 27 and we…

I’ve been in an open (lesbian) relationship for just over a year now and for the most part it’s fine. But I think my girlfriend likes the attention from guys, and so do I, which is why we keep our relationship open. Sometimes we go months and months without sleeping with anyone else, and then, when we do, some feelings of resentment arise; it’s easy to feel threatened by a man I don’t know who’s having sex with my girl. I know she gets the same feelings because there was a time early on in our relationship where she would give me restrictions on who I could and couldn’t sleep with, but…

It’s time again for Shortcuts. For every question, I’ll give my advice in just a few sentences, because sometimes the answer to a person’s question is so obvious and the need to hear it so great, being as clear and frank as possible is simply the best way to go.