Your Turn: “How Can I Move Past His Cyber Cheating?”

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: I’ve been in a very awkward relationship with a man for eight years now. It started with us just being sex buddies then it turned into something more. We dated for about two years then broke up because I was expecting him to cheat on me all the time and I would compare him to my father, who cheated on my mother. We both knew we couldn’t move on so we kept seeing each other with a plan intact. The plan was that because I had…

“My Girlfriend’s Spending All Her Time with An Older Man”

My girlfriend and I got separated by circumstance. I was living with her on the west coast and we had a very passionate relationship. Then, I got into grad school, and had to move back east. She wanted to come with me, but she has another year of undergrad left. We had a very painful couple of months and ended up “separated.” She has since come to visit and we kind of decided we want to try and make it work. However, she spends a majority of her time with a much older man (like 30 years older) who she has said is romantically interested in her, but she claims nothing is…

“My Sexist Brother Offends My Girlfriend and Me”

My girlfriend and I live together in a desirable city, and my older brother and his wife stayed with us for a couple weeks in late July. Our apartment is on the small side, so having guests, even just for a night or two, is a bit trying and stressful even without any added complications. While they were here, “Jim” and “Karen” (not their real names) didn’t offer to help with dishes or cover the cost of entertainment, and my brother was incredibly condescending to me at every turn (which, sadly, I expected). While that was frustrating, the real issue has to do with my brother’s attitude toward women. During his visit,…

“My Boyfriend Dumped Me After I Was Sexually Assaulted”

After I received the following letter, I reached out to, Kim, a DW reader who spent three years volunteering as a rape crisis counselor through the YWCA while in graduate school (and received an award for Volunteer of the Year). Her work involved extensive training to complete crisis-counselor certification, answering hotline phone calls, accompanying victims to hospital exams and police interviews, and training to assist in hospital exams involving children. My boyfriend and I have been living together for a year and a half. He moved in with me and my roommates fairly soon after we started dating (one month). February of this year we moved into our own apartment. Our relationship…

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