“Should I Cut All Ties with My Abusive Mother?”

When I was young (starting around the time I was five) my mother was emotionally unavailable to me and particularly to my sister, to the point that she severely neglected my sister when she was in diapers and left her alone in her crib day in and day out while she slept (not because she was depressed, as she would later claim, but because she had been out until dawn drinking and sleeping around behind my poor father’s back). Eventually, she got pregnant by another man and had to tone down her wild ways while she incubated my second sister, whom my dad has always treated as his own (and who is…

“Should I Tell Him I Had a Miscarriage?”

For the past year I have had a casual fling with a guy from work. We began flirting, things escalated, and we ended up sleeping together. Things have never been awkward at work. We rarely see each other outside of work unless it’s a night out. So there are no dates, etc. My feelings for him have gotten really strong, and I’ve wanted things to progress. I’ve heard stories of him being a bit of a “manslag,” but none of this puts me off him. I won’t even go on a date with another guy because I feel so strongly about him. I have asked him how he feels, and he said…

“I’m Hung Up on Twin Brothers”

I’m currently finishing college, but my story dates back to the very beginning of high school when I was in the same class as two boys — twin brothers. They were very shy guys with close to no female friends. However, because I’m kind of tomboy-ish and easy-going, I hit it off with them and we became close friends. I would go to their house to study and play games, etc., along with other guys. Soon, I began liking one of them. Let’s call him Adam. Months went by and most of my friends suspected Adam liked me back, but we always interacted in this more-than-friends but not boyfriend-girlfriend kind of grey zone….

Your Turn: “How Can I Get More Affection?”

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 have been with my boyfriend “Aaron” for almost three years. We’re both 26. I’m a doctoral student and he has a great job in engineering. We have lived together for about a year and a half. I love him and our life together; our personalities click, we have many shared interests, we laugh together a lot, we co-habitate fabulously, and for the most part we have reasonable communication. Our lives are full of volunteering with a youth organization very important to both of us, BBQs,…

“Am I ‘Cheating’ on My Boyfriend When I Check My Ex’s Facebook Page?”

From the forums: I’m almost 24 been in a long distance relationship for the past nine months (we haven’t met in person yet). We have no secrets from each other and always tell one another about everything in each of our lives. We love each other so much want to live together soon (he is going to move to me and live in my country in a month). The thing is, I started dating him a few days after I broke up with my ex, and during these nine months I keep checking my ex’s profile in any of his social media accounts. I do it out of curiosity. Some people say…

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