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I was newly separated from my children’s father when he got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. We are not legally married but were together 15 years. Before the diagnosis, he had no problem going on with his life after we broke up. We are very different people, but he was like a best friend because of the many years spent together — just sort of a best friend you don’t wanna hang out with all the time because you don’t really get along. I didn’t want my kids to grow up in a big city, so I moved our of state with them. My ex didn’t want to move, but he was…

I’ve met this wonderful woman online. We have talked for several months now, feeling the waters. I had been wanting to make it official, until she dropped the fact she is bisexual. I was quite upset with her because she told me right in the middle of making things work. It felt like a bomb, with a lot of information to process and with numerous emotions, too. I have been honest with her since the beginning — that I date straight women, and I felt lied to when her online profile stated she was straight. I’m struggling with accepting her bisexuality. She wants to be monogamous, which is fantastic. She says she…

My husband and I have a problem with communication – specifically his memory – and it’s really starting to affect our relationship. I will ask him a favor or request something of him (example: I asked him recently if we could have a “family day” with the kids soon). I give him all the details he may need, like the day, the time…whatever needs to be said, and he’ll think it over and will agree to help. But then when the time comes, he backs out of whatever it is I asked for his help with, claiming I never asked him to help or claiming I did ask but wasn’t specific enough…

I’m a woman in my early thirties, married and gainfully employed with no kids. From the outside, I mostly seem to have it together — I’m a valued employee at my 9-5 job, was an excellent student in college/grad school, and manage to hold down a rigorous work-out schedule while working on a novel in my free time — but I actually feel like I’m a hot mess. For example, I’m not very punctual (okay, I admit I’m always running 5-10 minutes late for everything). I have dented two cars, have lost my car keys, and, as of last year, have broken my cell phone. I feel like I’m always losing or forgetting…

A week before Easter I met this woman at a bar and asked for her number. She preferred I give her mine, which I did. She didn’t say goodbye when she left the bar with her girlfriend. I think she glanced back at me and that was it. To my surprise, she texted me 19 days later. Her reason for waiting so long was that she was busy because of Easter, which seems like a lame excuse to me. How busy was she? She’s not working at the moment and she’s too busy to contact someone for 19 days? And how busy can Easter be? Too busy to send a text to…

My mom and I have always had a strained relationship throughout my life. I spent the majority of my childhood away from my parents because of their busy work schedule. I lived with my grandparents until I was 13, and my parents would visit me once a week at most and spend a few hours with me. They brought me home after eighth grade to live with them, but I never seemed to feel close enough to them. My mom is a strict disciplinarian. She was nice to me and never intentionally abused me in any form, but, to be honest, I don’t think I ever felt loved or loved my parents…

I always thought my boyfriend of seven months was perfect, but I recently have found out that he has been lying to me about a lot of things. He lied about contact with his ex during our entire relationship, about his past relationship history, never about other little things. He will deny these lies and try to make me feel like I’m remembering things all wrong. I’ve felt betrayed when he chooses his ex’s feelings over mine in these situations, and he doesn’t seem to have proper boundaries. On our first Christmas together his family handed out gifts from his ex to everyone but me. I felt humiliated! I feel he is…

I’ve been dating my boyfriend Carl for four months. He has been nothing but amazing to me, very attentive, loving, etc. He has two little girls, both from different moms with whom he was in serious relationships at different times. He was completely honest with me about that and about almost everything else, so I respected it. However, last week I was talking to his grandma and she mentioned that he had a SON. BOMBSHELL. She could tell I didn’t have any idea what she was talking about and she was apologetic, but she suggested that I bring it up to him. So I did, through tears, and he explained to me…

I’m a 35-year-old female and was with a 37-year-old male for two and a half years. He ended things about a year ago, saying that he still loved me but needed to figure out his life and how to be ready for a relationship. In the time that we have been broken up, he has gone to therapy and gone back to school to try to get his life in order. Now he is coming back wanting to get back together and it is something I really truly want, but there is a small twist. He is in a professional-level band with another woman who, throughout our relationship, caused a lot of…

I’m 42 and expecting my first child. The baby is due at the end of December, and my boyfriend’s teammate at work (a girl with lots of single friends) and close friend of many years is getting married (in another country) the third week of January. I am upset that he wants to go to the wedding, so far away from where we live, so soon after our baby is due. Not only am I nervous about being alone to take care of the baby at only three weeks old (he thinks that if I have help from my mom or nanny I should be fine), I’m very insecure about the fact…