Quickies: “He Dumped Me But He Still Owes Me a Birthday Gift!”

My birthday was four months ago. At the time, my boyfriend gave me a picture of people skydiving as an I.O.U. for a skydiving trip (because he has always wanted to go), which he still hasn’t made good on. Last week he dumped me. As I walked out of his apartment, feeling pretty salty, I said “You owe me a skydiving trip.” We spoke yesterday to facilitate an exchange of borrowed books, clothes, etc. He said he wants to give me my birthday present. He was planning to just give me a gift certificate to a place, but he doesn’t want to get me something I won’t use and so he offered…

Quickies: “He Says He Has Brotherly Love For Me”

I’m 29 and my boyfriend is 42. We were sweet and loving with each other until recently when he experiences a series of setbacks, including a demotion at work and his car not functioning well, which caused him a lot of unhappiness and has led to a lack of intimacy between us. I’m impatient and got a little upset with his withdrawal from me and started punishing him by abandoning him and planning my own activities instead of inviting him along (as whenever I invited him for an activity, he would be too lazy to join). Now, I feel disconnected from him. After a year of this now he, too, is finally…

Quickies: “Does My Ex Want Me Back?”

A man I dated was living with his girlfriend of ten years when he started pursuing me. He knew that I was in a bad marriage at the time and he kept insisting we be together. His girlfriend moved out. He promised me happiness, love, security, etc. and I believed him. Out of the blue one day, he told me he met with his ex-girlfriend and still had feelings for her. She moved back in with him. That was a year and a half ago. He recently called me when he was away from home one night at 11:30, saying he “Just wanted to see how I was doing.” What does this…

Quickie: “He Took Me To Australia and Didn’t Propose!”

I’ve been with my boyfriend for two years and six months. Lately, we have had lots of arguments and he started to change and now he is moving out. It started after he took me to meet his parents in Australia. We had talked about marriage with his family and we agreed to get married next year and now all of a sudden he’s telling me he is not ready and he wants space to think! But I have seen the engagement ring in the wardrobe for about a year. Don’t you think that’s odd? Anyway, he is moving out now and trying to be all nice until he goes. Do you…

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