Your Turn

In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: My boyfriend and I have been together two years. We’re both just shy of 18. We have a really great relationship (no sex yet either) and are very, very happy together. My parents are high-school sweethearts, still married, and absolutely adore my boyfriend. My boyfriend’s parents are divorced. He spends every other weekend at his dad’s house and then lives with his mother and his step-father all other times. His dad and his girlfriend have always loved me and accepted me and are very sweet to…

In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: I have been with my boyfriend for four and a half years. We are still quite young (I am 24, he is 26) but we have been discussing marriage seriously as something that will happen in the next two to three years. Now that it’s getting more real I wonder if I am making the right choice. I was always shy in school and never dated. He is my first (and only) experience for everything; I don’t think I have even held hands with anyone else…

In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: I am a gay male and am dating someone whom I am not sexually attracted to. We have been together over two years and have gone for months without having sex. He asks me to go to bed with him and I really don’t want to. I feel bad for rejecting him, but my heart’s just not in it. I have been completely faithful and have not cheated on him, though temptation was there (but I’m not that kind of person). We have been arguing so…

In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: This guy, “Jake,” and I have been together for 3 1/2 years now. During this time he has told me that he wasn’t in love with me but he does love me and really does care for me (he has broken up with me three times and then taken it back). For the past four months we have been trying to be just friends, but the other day he told me that he was in love with me again and that he doesn’t want to lose…

In a feature I call “Your Turn,” in which you, the readers, get to answer the question, I’m presenting the following letter without commentary from me: I have been married for two years and have been with my husband, “Carl,” for five years. We are both in our late 20s. In February I told Carl that I could not put up with his drinking anymore (he was drinking 2-4 beers on a daily basis — more on weekends — and has gotten two DUIs). He seemed to turn things around: he started going to school to get his GED; he started working out; he lost 30 lbs; and things seemed to be…