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I’m spending the morning taking Jackson to his first day of kindergarten and getting him oriented there. This LW is looking for “neutral advice” and I know you guys won’t let her down. I am scared and desperately seeking neutral advice to try to help me navigate a situation that I never thought I would face: being a single mother to my beautiful one-year-old, or fighting for our family so she has her mom and dad together. I have been in a relationship with the baby’s father, “Rick,” for three years. It has been a very rocky three years, including his seeking and getting attention from other women. I asked him to…

I read a letter about a girl whose boyfriend had sex with her while she was sleeping, and a similar thing happened to me. Last night, my fiancé, “Jim,” and his friend were in my room playing video games and I fell asleep. I was out for maybe three hours before I half woke up when Jim’s friend left. I was still mostly asleep, but I had a foggy sense of what was going on around me. Jim climbed into bed and took off his clothes and mine, which is usual as we get too warm sleeping together. But this time he also took off my underwear. I was too out of…

“About 15 years ago, my sister’s husband cornered me in my house and asked me to comfort him by hugging and kissing him after a fight between him and my sister.”

I was divorced eighteen months ago. I have since decided to engage in NSA arrangements only. I met a man online whom I corresponded with for ten days before meeting up. We decided online that we both want a NSA arrangement. Both of us are lawyers and, when we met up, we talked for hours and then had sex. We cuddled and chatted for hours afterwards as well. The next day, he thanked me for a lovely evening and said that he wanted to see me again some time. A week went by without my hearing from him. Then I sent him an email with my masters thesis since we had spoken…