“My Boyfriend Of Six Months Sleeps In Another Room”

I’m 35 and have been with my boyfriend for six months. I never had kids because I was waiting for that special someone I could share moments and grow old with, but my boyfriend has three beautiful girls. It took a while for them to warm up to me, but today we all get along very well. My boyfriend shares 50/50 custody with the kids’ mom so he has them for a week and then she has them for a week. The week that we don’t have them it’s easier to get attention from my boyfriend. When we have the girls, I feel left out and don’t get much attention from him….

Quickie: “My Niece Won’t Stop Asking for My Address”

This by no means is a large problem but more of an annoyance. I have a niece who is 32 years old and, anytime she wants to send me an invitation, thank you, or anything, she emails me for my mailing address which has been the same for over ten years. Not only have I given it to her multiple times, but I’ve also sent her cards and packages with my address label and printed up a card with my address and sent it to her. The reasons it annoys me are: 1) one of then nicest things about getting a card is the surprise of it; 2) it makes me feel…

“I Have No Boundaries With My In-Laws”

To say that my in-laws are difficult is an understatement. Two years ago we moved fifteen minutes away and, to them, a fifteen-minute drive is like driving out of the state, so it helped quite a bit to limit the weekend stop-overs. One of the issues I am currently having is that, when they do come over, they stay for five to six hours and take up our entire day with us doing nothing but hosting them. Lately, they will come over with our niece. I have two little ones (ages four and two) and a third baby on the way. The last time they came over with my niece they stayed…

From the Mailbag: Brother of “Hurt Daughter” Responds

I received from my sister your response to her letter, and I feel it is appropriate to provide the correct context for the events described by my sister and my reaction/comments to her. My sister and I had a discussion over her decision to not invite our dad’s wife to her wedding. I explained that, in my opinion, if she chose to not invite her, it would place our father in an impossible situation of having to “decide” between his daughter and his wife, and that it would mean there would be NO chance that our father would attend the wedding. He must exist with his wife (whether my sister likes her…

“My Boyfriend’s Daughters Are Excluding Me From Father’s Day!”

“Mike” and I dated in high school, went our separate ways after graduation, and then thirty years later got back together. I moved back to where I grew up, and he insisted I move in with him. We love each other and have fun together. He has two daughters, 25 and 23, whom he raised and who lived with him. Their mom was/is around, but for whatever reasons the girls wanted to live with their dad. We have had our ups and downs, but that’s life. I have four sons, all grown, who live far away so we don’t see them much. Life with adult girls is very different than what I’m…

“My Brother Says I’m Wrong For Not Inviting Our Father to My Wedding”

My father has never been a father to me or my brothers. He and my mother divorced and he has since married a woman who is an alcoholic. I guess he feels she is better than being alone. Anyway, I was invited to his house for dinner with my fiancé so he could meet my husband-to-be. (I’m 40 and had finally found someone I wanted to marry.) At the dinner his wife became verbally abusive to me and completely embarrassed me in front of my fiancé, swearing at me and questioning my relationship with my father. This was after she drank a whole bottle of wine. She was also physically abusive to…

Shortcuts: “How Do I Stop Sleeping With My Married Neighbor?”

It’s time again for Shortcuts. For every question, I’ll give my advice in just a few sentences because sometimes the answer to a person’s question is so obvious and the need to hear it so great that being as clear and frank as possible is simply the best way to go. I talked to a neighbor of nine years about a personal issue. He hugged and comforted me. Four months later he texted me and within two days we were hot-n-heavy sexting, which awoke a latent passion in me after twemty years of no sex. I sent him sexy pics of me and his focus is always on my breasts – tight…

Your Turn: “I Told Him He Could Sleep With Someone Else, But He Still Went Behind My Back”

Though only married for a few years, my husband and I have been together exclusively since I was 15 and he was 16 (we are now 32 and 33). He is a massage therapist and I am a homemaker, and we have three beautiful sons together. Two years ago I found out that he had been contacting people via email from classified ads offering “massages.” He told me at first that he was only looking for a massage therapist that could help him out, but he later admitted that he knew they were not legitimate and what they were really advertising. He also was adamant that nothing had come of the contact….

The Stanford Rape Victim Reads Aloud This Powerful Statement To Her Attacker (And It Should Be Required Reading Everywhere)

By now, you’ve probably heard about the former Stanford student, Brock Turner, who was recently convicted of raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster after a frat party and was sentenced to a measly six months in jail (which he’s going to appeal). The judge, a Stanford alum, said he didn’t want to give him more than six months, which is significantly less severe than the minimum prison time of two years prescribed by state law for his felony offenses, because it would have a “severe impact” on the rapist. If that doesn’t make you want to scream, consider the argument from the rapist’s father that his son be given leniency because…

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