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My boyfriend and I recently were in bed, both a little intoxicated after a night out, and he asked me if I had any crazy secrets I’ve never told anyone. We’ve been together almost a year, and he asks me deep questions a lot, so I obliged and told him some. In return, he told me that when he was 13, he lost his virginity to his cousin of the same age. The following summer it happened again, and the next summer again, and after that they no longer continued. Hearing about it makes me feel really weird, because they were so young on top of it being his cousin. Now I…

I’m a single mom to a little boy who is three years old. I met my boyfriend a year ago, and though we’ve had ups and downs like a lot of couples, we’ve always stuck together. Anyway, my friend Lydia and I had a weekend away last week. There was a lot of partying, a lot of drinking and just having fun. I stayed in contact with my boyfriend the whole time I was away (I let him know what I was up to and how I was, etc.). I sent him a few videos of Lydia and me dancing at clubs, and in one video she and I had a kiss…

My boyfriend and I have been together for one and a half years. He and I are 28 and 29, respectively, and I have three kids from my previous marriage. I told him from the start about my kids, and we took things very slowly in regards to his meeting them. Once we hit the six-month mark we decided it was ok for him to meet my oldest, who’s 6. The first six months of our relationship involved my divorce, and when that was finalized, I moved into my own apartment with my kids. He stayed over more and more. Then after a year of being a couple, he decided to move…

My husband left me last year in April for a girl he met at his gym. I had speculated that he was cheating on me and, lo and behold, I was right. He told me he didn’t love me anymore, and about two weeks later I found out he was in Florida with this girl. We had been married for three and a half years and together for a total of eight years. The Christmas before he left, when I was speculating that he was cheating on me, I snooped through his email and found a message in his inbox that shocked me. It was an email response to a Craigslist ad…

I have been in a relationship since 2014. It went pretty fast — we got married in 2016 and had two kids, back-to-back. My husband has two other children from a previous relationship who are now six and nine (I also have a 13-year-old). I have never met them!!! Last year, he took our two boys to meet them at his son’s football practice. And now, recently, he has mentioned he wants to plan a boys’ weekend (without me). His excuse is that he couldn’t tell his ex about me for a long time because she is jealous and wouldn’t have let him see the kids. In fact, he never told her…

My boyfriend, “Julio,” and I have been together for a year and a half. I don’t mean to sound selfish or ungrateful when I say this, but I feel like Julio doesn’t love me as much as his exes. On Christmas he spent $30 on underwear and gave me a gift card. Sure, I was thankful, but it wasn’t thoughtful at all, especially considering I went all out for him on Christmas and on his birthday before that. We even discussed how important these holidays meant to both of us. Then my birthday came around, and he got me nothing! We even split the bill for dinner and I paid the majority…

I have been with my boyfriend, “Ted,” for over a year and we now live together. Our relationship started in an iffy manner as I was just getting out of another relationship and I told Ted that I would have to wait a couple months before I could officially call him my boyfriend because I didn’t want people to talk. Later I found that during this time he was not only flirting with an ex but telling her the same things he was telling me (that he loves her, wanted to be with her, and so forth) and sending her nudes. When we started dating, he stopped flirting with her but never…

I am dating an Orthodox Jewish man I met on Facebook through mutual friends. He is careful with money to a fault; he lets me travel to see him because he needs a minyan which isn’t available in my area. He hasn’t offered to chip in but has told me he earns £81000 (about $105,097) a year and is due a large tax refund. When we were out shopping one day and I offered him £2 (about $2.60) for a box of candles I wanted as be was already in line, he took it. However, I took my children to his home for a week and he happily bought all the (kosher)…

I was in a relationship with a man (we will call him Greg) for over 2-1/2 years. The relationship was great for the first year. After that it was fraught with issues — mostly stemming from the fact that Greg had one foot in his prior marriage. Without going into detail, Greg was divorced. He lived at home with his ex-wife (we will call her Sheila) for the sake of co-patenting their children who have autism. However, their relationship was much closer than that of co-parents (more of a best friend situation where Greg would discuss our problems with Shiela. I felt that was inappropriate and we fought about it a lot)….

My husband and I are in an ethical and consensual non-monogamous marriage and have been for the last four years. We both identify as polyamorous. He has several other long-term partners that I have close platonic friendships with as well. However, my question is not about our relationship — I just wanted to give some context. In addition to my husband, I have a boyfriend, B, I have been dating for the past 11 months. B identifies as monogamous. He knew the deal completely when we started dating. I do not practice prescribed hierarchy, so I do my best to prioritize my marriage and my relationship with B as best as I…