Updates

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Plus 1 OK?” who lives abroad and was planning a trip back to the states with her boyfriend that coincided with her cousin’s wedding. She was invited to the wedding, but her boyfriend was not. “I’d feel awful making my boyfriend go through [the drive to the wedding] after spending about 15 hours traveling across the world to just hang out in a hotel while I go to the wedding. Would it be absolutely awful to ask…

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today, we hear from “Engaged in a Gender Bender” whose fiancé confessed to her that he was “really considering a sex change.” “She wrote “I don’t want to lose my fiancé, and I’m afraid to tell him that it wouldn’t work with us on a romantic level after he changed because I know it’d break his heart. Should I even try to be with him in that way after?” Keep reading to see what has happened in the three years since…

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Pregnant and Miserable in Mississippi” who had been emotionally (and physically) abandoned by a long-time friend after she got pregnant by him and moved across the country to his parents’ home where he’d promised he would meet her to start a new life together. Keep reading to see how things have changed since she wrote last month.

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Confused Mom and Girlfriend” whose boyfriend of a year was feeling jealous of and threatened by the LW’s co-parenting relationship with her ex-husband.

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Vegas Bride” who wondered if she was obligated to invite her family to the elopement she dreamed of having in Vegas. She wanted to invite her dad, whom she knew would be a very low-key guest, but felt that, if she invited him, she’d have to invite the rest of her immediate family as well as her fiancé’s family, and then she wouldn’t really have the private elopement she was hoping for. “What should I do?” She…

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Unsure, Myself” who wrote it way back in May of 2011 asking for advice about whether she should move on from her boyfriend of a year and a half. After a messy divorce, he was unsure about whether he wanted to ever get married again and have kids. “I want to have a family some day. I would take him at his word concerning marriage and family, but his word is ‘unsure.’” (Similar to a column from…

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Hurt By Parents’ Generosity,” whose parents bought her sister a house but gave her nothing. Keep reading to see what’s new and how she’s doing today.

It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing now. Today we hear from “Not Into Her New Man” who was worried that her friend was being taken advantage of when she began dating a man 25 years her junior who “lost” his bank card and was letting the LW’s friend pay for everything. “I’m worried that, if I say something negative about him, she’ll tell him and he’ll find a way to get me cut out of her life.” Keep reading to see if the guy is still in the…