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I’m 19 years old, and I have an 8-month-old daughter with a man who hasn’t been involved in my daughter’s life since he found out I was pregnant earlier last year. I’m currently in a relationship with another man, Josh, 21, and we’ve been dating for about five months. Josh was a friend whom I could go to when I needed someone to talk to while I was pregnant. He recently told me that he doesn’t want to raise someone else’s child, but he still wants us to be together and that it doesn’t mean that in the future he couldn’t change his mind. Although I haven’t given him any responsibility in…

“A week before Christmas my boyfriend of three years proposed. I called to tell my mom about the engagement, and she spoke to me with great disappointment.”

“My daughter has started talking to a couple of guys, one of whom seems great. She, however, says he is a redneck.”

My fiancé and I have been engaged for a little over a year. When we started planning, I immediately asked my best friend to be my Maid of Honor. We’ve been friends since we were ten, so it was a no-brainer. I wanted to ask my three other friends from high school, but, because there weren’t three guys my fiancé wanted as groomsmen, we decided I would ask different people to be bridesmaids (so as to not pick one or two of my friends over the others). So I asked a friend whom I had met at my job (and whom at the time I was close with) and my fiancé’s cousin…

“My partner, “Bob,” and I are in our mid- to late- 50s, and, although we’re compatible in many ways and enjoy each other’s company, there is one significant barrier to our relationship: his attachment to his older sister.”

“I have an issue I don’t know how to address in a “normal” way because I grew up in a severely dysfunctional home. “

“Last week, my brother informed me that he couldn’t attend my wedding as he’d just realized the date was the same as his best friend’s, for whom he is going to be best man.”

I dated my ex-boyfriend for almost one year and, even though he claimed he loved me, I had a problem with his lack of communication. He told me he was like that with everybody. He never returned calls or messages. He would go weeks without communicating and a couple of times he left town for work without informing me. He was a real workaholic and he would tell me that when he was working he couldn’t think of anything else. He would make plans with me and break them without informing me and then later tell me something work-related had come up. Eventually, I got tired of it and left. A month…

I’m having serious issues with my future mother-in-law. My fiancé and I are in the middle of wedding planning and my parents are paying for the entire thing (rehearsal dinner included), but FMIL threw a hissy fit saying she wanted to invite more guests, the food wasn’t right, etc. Well, that finally just ended after my mom threatened to not invite her or the family. And recently now, my fiancé cannot go to Christmas Eve with them because he is working late, and she threw a fit about that, blamed me, and is now having all the relatives call us saying how upset and disappointed they are. This has been an ongoing…