“My Fiancé Insists I Spend all My Vacation Time With His Family”

I live in Belgium and am currently in a relationship with someone who grew up in Croatia. His mother is Belgian but lives there with his father, on a beautiful island. He moved here five years ago to study, and he has decided to stay since he’ll have more work opportunity here. We started our relationship one year and four months ago, and I can honestly say he’s everything I ever wanted. He asked me to marry him, and, of course, I said yes. We’ve been living together for eight months now, and, although we sometimes argue, it has been super. We even work together as a team (we work in advertising)…

Your Turn: “Should I Kick My Husband Out?”

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 husband since I was 19 years old, and we got married when I was 21. We’ve been married over two years and I can truly say I’ve never been happy during this time. My husband used to be the sweetest man alive before we got married. He was a strong Christian with a huge sense of morals. His first set of lies came a month after our marriage. Doing laundry, I went into his closet and found weed hidden in his…

“My Ex Has a New Girlfriend. Why Does He Keep Calling Me?”

In March, my boyfriend of almost three years and I both realized that we want different things in life and decided mutually to break things off for good (after a brief breakup this past fall). In May, almost two months after we broke up, he began a new relationship. Recently, he started calling me. The first call was a question he knew only I could help him with. The second call was just to catch up. The third, fourth, fifth, and many other calls since have been to discuss how things have been, how I’ve been doing, what he’s been up to, etc. etc., and he has mentioned his new relationship many…

Your Turn: “Should I Send an Anonymous Letter to My Friend’s Parents?”

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: This year I have gotten close to a girl in my circle of friends who has many health and mental health problems. To start, she has cystic fibrosis, which requires a lot of self-care including breathing treatments and medication. CF will already shorten her life considerably and there is no cure. If she takes care of herself, she could live to about 40 or 50. In addition to CF she also has diabetes and liver cirrhosis, but she smokes weed, is anorexic and bulimic, abuses Xanax…

“How Long Do You Have to Wait to Be Friends with an Ex?”

Last week my boyfriend of almost 17 months and I broke up. It was very much a mutual break up in that I brought up the discussion and he followed through that it was time to stop seeing each other. We broke up mostly because neither of us saw a future together and because we are just too different — we are both very passionate people but our passions have very little overlap and sometimes it just felt that we had so little in common. What kept us together for so long was our amazing friendship. Our relationship was quite smooth and healthy; we could have had better communication on some occasions,…

“How Can I Forgive His Cheating?”

Up until two weeks ago, my relationship was as close to perfect as possible. My boyfriend, “Pete,” and I had been dating for three years and were extremely happy and in love. I usually have trouble trusting guys, mostly because my parents divorced due to my father’s infidelity, but with Pete I always felt like he could never hurt me. Then one night, we were having dinner and talking about lying and how bad it is for a relationship (can’t remember how this came up) and, all of a sudden, he broke down in tears and confessed to me that one time, about two months after we started dating, he had cheated…

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