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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…

“A couple of years ago, my mother revealed to me and my brother, that in the years before she met my dad, she had had a relationship with a married man.”

“I’m getting married to an amazing guy in two weeks. We’ve been together for about 2 1/2 years, and we’ve been long distance for about a year now.”

“I recently got out of a month-long relationship that, despite its brevity, didn’t end well. My now ex-boyfriend and I made plans while we were dating…”

“I recently had a baby and my family lives far away so we decided to move closer to my husband’s family in case we needed help.”

“I recently received a job offer from the company I interned with. I’m not sure if I want to accept this offer, so I asked some close friends for advice…”