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I’m middle-aged and have one brother, a few years older. Our parents were happily married for nearly 50 years when our mom suddenly died four years ago. Dad was 78 at that time. Dad walked around for the first few months after Mom died in terrible depression, as we all were, as we were all very close. Four months after Mom’s death, my dad went to a class reunion, and the next thing we knew he had hooked up with a woman, “Carla,” whom he knew from high school and who had been widowed about 10 years before. We got to know Carla fairly quickly because, against all better judgement, Dad sold…

I lost my boyfriend of ten years about two years ago. I went to the store, and when I came home ten minutes later, I found him in the bathroom not breathing. He was 45 years old, and my whole world was shattered. He was my best friend and my soulmate. I recently met a new guy – “Roger” – who is really nice. He is nothing at all like my late boyfriend, and because it’s only been about a month or so, it seems like things are moving too fast. He wants to take things to the next level, and I am so scared. I don’t want to hurt him at…

My boyfriend, “Ryan” and I had been dating for ten months but had to take a break because we were both moving to faraway places and neither of us was keen on doing long-distance.