“I’m 18 and My Boyfriend is 30”

My boyfriend turned 30 a few days ago and I turn 19 in a couple months. I understand that age differences become less of a big deal when you’re past your 20’s, but I’m not. He’s a good man, who takes good care of me, is well-educated and has a good job. I hope to tell my parents about him soon, but the problem is that they’re rather old-fashioned and conservative. I believe that at least for a while, my parents will be strongly disapproving. What is the best way to deal with that, and are age differences in a relationship really all that taboo? — May-December

“My Boyfriend’s Bipolar Mother is Driving Me Crazy”

I’m 21-years-old and have been dating my boyfriend for over three years. We started out LDR but after about a year and a half he moved in with me. So far it’s been great, we’re talking engagement and marriage, and life is going pretty well. However, I have an issue with his mother who’s bipolar disorder and refuses to take medication for it. She’s always been very sweet and nice, but only to my face. When she found out that boyfriend and I were living together, she flipped out on him and started a screaming match in a parking lot. He told me that she called me a harlot, and that as…

“My Mother’s Angry I Didn’t Ask Her New Husband to Walk me Down the Aisle”

I’m 25, and getting married to the love of my life in six months. I was very close to my father but he passed away when I was in middle school. I decided quite some time ago that my cousin, Richard, would walk me down the aisle in place of my father. He has always acted as my big brother (I have no siblings) and has been there for me through good times and bad. When I asked him to perform this duty, he was so elated that he was near tears. My mother got remarried about a year and a half ago to a wonderful man after knowing him for six…

“My Psychopath Ex is Becoming a Therapist”

Once, a long long time ago, I went out with (okay lived with) a lovely psychopath for ten years. This guy is a total charmer — like really, really good. I recently heard he is now qualifying to be a therapist. When he was with me, he was a truly poisonous thing, creating deep and lasting damage. And although like all psychopaths he is very insightful, I have no confidence that he will ever act in favor of those he might help, and feel very anxious that he may abuse his position. It’s possible he may have grown up and tried to change, but when he was with me he was a…

“My Married Co-Worker Confessed Feelings for Me!”

Recently, my coworker who’s married with kids told me he has feelings for me. We’ve always been a part of a group at work of about five to six of us who hang out together, and we started talking a bit more last year, after he experienced a death in the family and I bought a little box of chocolates and wrote him a note saying how sorry I was for his loss. We never hung out on our own in or out of the office, though. We did sometimes stop by each other’s cubes for a little chat, and also sometimes talked over text messaging, which I do with a lot…

“Is It Ever a Good Idea to Get Back with an Ex?”

I’ve seen so many friends and acquaintances get back together with an ex shortly after their respective breakups and it has not once worked out. I believe if you can get to the point of breaking up, it should not be taken lightly and forgotten as soon as you miss either the person or the company, which we know are two different things altogether. Do you have specific thoughts on getting back with an ex? Or is it completely situational? I ask this because my most recent ex has been trying since we broke up months and months ago to get back together. But what keeps me grounded is thinking of what…

“My Father Thinks I’m a Lesbian”

I am a 20-year-old female, still living at home with my parents due to financial reasons. I do not have a boyfriend, but I have quite a few gay friends and deeply support gay rights. As a result, my father is convinced that I’m a lesbian. This isn’t the first time that someone has thought I’m a lesbian so normally I just laugh it off and move on. However, I live with my father and speak to him every day. Ever since he came to the conclusion that I must be gay — which he’s asked me about and I’ve outright denied — he analyzes and over-analyzes every single thing I do….

Your Turn: “Our Wedding Is Ruining Our Relationship!”

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 are getting married in just under nine weeks and it has become a massive struggle. We are paying loads of money for last-minute things (clearing the balance for the reception, the photographer, etc), which means we can’t go out or do anything spontaneous like order a pizza, which has been hugely stressful and depressing for both of us. We were both unemployed for a long time and started saving up for the wedding soon after we got jobs, so we didn’t really…

“He Never Initiates Sex Anymore!”

My fiancé and I have been together for one year. We live in different states and see each other an average of two weekends out of the month. In the beginning the sex was good and frequent with him initiating it and putting in most of the effort to please me. In more recent months the sex has begun to slow down and now it is completely non-existent. Meanwhile, our relationship remains strong, loving and affectionate (besides sex) and I am as sure as one can be that he is not cheating on me. Whenever I bring up the lack of sex to him he says that the stress of being unemployed…

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