Your Turn: “He Slept with a Prostitute”

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: My boyfriend and I recently broke up for just a day. Honestly, we have no idea why we broke up — we just did….

“She Wants to Bring a Baby to Our Wedding”

I’m getting married in six months and am having some major drama with my future sister-in-law. I asked her to be a bridesmaid because it was important to my fiancé and because I wanted to strengthen my relationship with her (we have always been friendly, but not exactly close). Anyway, the drama started when she mentioned that she wanted her baby (who will be five months old) to be a ring bearer. We are already having her three-year-old daughter as our flower girl, and we had no intention of having any babies or really any other children at the wedding (including my own niece who will be six months old at the…

Your Turn: “My Boyfriend is Way Too Close with His Sister-in-Law”

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: My boyfriend and I have had a passionate, whirlwind relationship for the last nine months. We do everything together, and, if he is not with me, he is with his brother and sister-in-law. When I first met them I noticed there were many sexual jokes between my boyfriend and his SIL, like my boyfriend accidentally getting her pregnant for child support, etc. He explained it as “their humor.” Even his brother would encourage the jokes. I expressed my discomfort, and he said it would stop. He…

Your Turn: “His Parents Don’t Like Me”

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’ve been with my boyfriend for almost two years. We live together and love each other so much, but, since our relationship started, I had to drop out of college due to coming down with an unknown illness which was later discovered to be a lactose intolerance. I also suffered from reactive depression which caused stress-related IBS. Through out all of this, my boyfriend has looked after me so well. My parents love him, my sister likes him, my mum’s side of the family loves him,…

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