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“Because our husbands are close friends, she thinks we need to be best friends too.”

I am a woman in my early 20s who is in a (mostly) good relationship with my boyfriend of a few years, “Chris.” While I love him deeply, I’m not sure he’s the “one.” Despite my reservations, based largely on my relatively young age and the fact that there exist certain incompatibilities that are becoming increasingly apparent, I have no desire to leave my relationship in the immediate future. While I have never cheated on Chris and never would, there is another man in my life. I have known “Jack” since I was 15 and he was in his early/mid 20s. When I was 16, after a few months of platonic friendship,…

I have a good friend who just started dating this guy. He has a good job and they seem to really like one another. Although they aren’t “official” yet, they are exclusively seeing one another. After her last relationship ended, my friend was diagnosed with an STI that she got from her ex-boyfriend. This STI has no cure and can easily be spread. When she and I were talking about her current guy, I asked if she had told him about her STI. She said no, and when I asked if she was going to, she also said no! She said she will be using condoms all the time and there is…

“A few days ago I told my fiancé that I was going to clean out the closet. I found a box labeled wedding pictures, and I went through the box.”

“My boyfriend’s 12-year-old daughter, “Sarah,” spends every other weekend at our home.”

The guy I had been dating for three months broke up with me last week. We met online and he is 28 and I’m 30. We had a great time together, always got along, had chemistry and he treated me very well and made me feel special. However, I felt him pulling away about two weeks ago and it coincided with when we started hanging out with my friends more. He is very smart and college-educated with a good job. I have a PhD and most of my friends have grad degrees. I noticed when we started hanging out with my friends more he started to get more insecure and say things…

“I am 25, single, and have a dilemma: I’m interested in my brother’s best friend, ‘Peter.'”

My friends and I are in our late twenties/ early thirties. About two years ago my friend “Ken” started dating “Elise” who was eighteen years old and a senior in high school. He was thirty-one at the time. Elise was not a mature eighteen-year-old — if anything she was quite immature for her age, but not a mean or bad person. Two years later they live together and are going strong. None of us quite understand the attraction — other than the girl is quite beautiful — but she makes Ken happy. Unfortunately, the rest of us in our friend group can’t find common ground with her. Even though she’s twenty and…

Long story short: I met my boyfriend a little over a year and a half ago. My parents had just decided to get a divorce that got nasty quick. We lived an hour and a half apart and the nights I couldn’t see him, we were on the phone for hours. After two months of officially dating we decided to move in together. I moved an hour and a half away from my family to a town where I knew no one but him. I got a job and everything was great. We talk about marriage and kids and houses and even tried to buy one but we didn’t qualify at the…