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I am 23 years old and four years ago I met my now boyfriend. Although he seemed really interested in me for a couple of months, eventually things fizzled out and he told me he just wanted to be friends with benefits. We kept doing “stuff,” and even though I loved him very much, he pursued other women. About two years ago he started dating someone else and after one last night of “stuff,” stopped seeing me because he felt it wouldn’t be right to the girl he was dating. Shortly after, I found out I was pregnant, and, scared out of mind, had an abortion. He broke up with her after…

I’m about to enter the last semester of my sophomore year in college and I have YET to find a solid group of friends. I hang out with lots of these people, but I’m a floater. I float from group to group, never really finding people to stick to because it just never…flows like that. I feel like I would have to force it. And then I get depressed because I feel like a freak who can’t make friends yet. I know they like me, because they ask me to hang with them from time to time, but I’m sure they don’t want another person to add to their troupe. I think…

I’m a 37 year-old man and I’m estranged from my sister, “Rachel.” My father died three years ago and left a very large estate (think “Rain Man”) and gave about 95% of it to Rachel. I didn’t find out until the day he died, but Rachel knew it was going to happen and was executor of his will. She promised to give me my father’s old hunting place (it’s 45 minutes from my house and she lives in another state) but never did. I spent a lot of time there with our father. I stopped talking to her about a year and a half ago and decided to move on. My father…