“I Want to Tell Off my Family at our Reunion”

I’ve got a family reunion coming up where I am the only member of my immediate family going. Both my mom and my sister are boycotting it after the treatment we got last year from my mother’s brothers and their wives (my brother has been boycotting the family for years). Last year there was a baby shower the following week of the reunion for my cousin – a first time dad. The shower host claimed she couldn’t find our addresses then proceeded to make a big deal out of the fact that we “must come”, etc, though she never told us exactly when or where it was. A little later in the…

“I’m 26 and Never Kissed a Woman”

I’m a 26-year-old man and I’ve never kissed a woman before. I’m not hideously ugly or anything like that; in fact, my best friend often tells me that when he introduces me to his female friends or girls in his family, they usually tell him afterward that I’m cute and ask if I have a girlfriend. My problem is that I just don’t know how to talk to women at all. I grew up with an alcoholic father and a mentally ill sister who was hospitalized, and it was too damn much for me to deal with as a kid, let alone all the other angst of being a teen. As a…

“How Can I Live Without Him??”

I met my boyfriend online two and a half years ago, and while we didn’t mean to develop real feelings for each other, we eventually did. I lived in Canada and he lived in Australia, so for the next year and a half we both worked and saved enough money to visit each other for a few months each. We met around five months ago when he first came to visit me, and by the time I went back to Australia with him I was extremely in love. He was my first boyfriend and even my first kiss, so I’m pretty attached to him. Initially, before we met up, he had told…

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