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I’ve been with my guy three years and married for one. I forgave him for seeing someone else two years into the relationship mostly because we were still long distance at the time. A week after we got married in January, 2018, he confessed to me that the girl was pregnant! After two months of a hard breakup we got back together. He moved to be with me last November and now I’m pregnant. I still can’t get past the betrayal of his having his first child with someone else; every step they took broke my heart more and now a part of me hates him because I have to carry his second child which was not what we dreamed of. How can we get past this? Part of me wants to let go. — Mother of His Second Child
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Happy weekend! What are you all up to? We’ve got Joanie’s class pet – a guinea pig named Coco – at our house for the weekend (you can read my dramatic history with class pets in my insta stories to better understand why I’m feeling a little anxious and why I broke my drinking hiatus with a Bourbon and Ginger), and today is the kids’ back-to-school carnival all day (bounce houses! games! face painting [by their dad, the face-painting extraordinare])! Not sure what the rest of the weekend will bring, but the weather is supposed to be perfect so hopefully we’ll be outside a lot.
Hope you have a great weekend, and if you’re interested in seeing again how another advice columnist tackled the same question I answered recently, check out letter #2 in Carolyn Hax’s column yesterday. I answered the same one here (letter #1). Thanks to MaterialsGirl for sharing the link with me.
Here are a few things from around the web that may interest you:
#MeToo Sparked The Next, Great Sexual Revolution For Women
Woah: Flirty or Friendzone? New apps can use machine intelligence to determine if your text conversations are imbued with hidden romantic sparks.
And they say romance is dead: ‘Freeze… and marry me!’ – Russians who propose at gunpoint
Women Poop. Sometimes At Work. Get Over It.
How Happy Couples Argue
This is terrible: Over 3 million women in U.S. say their first sexual experience was rape
Also fucking terrible and not at all a surprise: With Abortion Restrictions On The Rise, Some Women Induce Their Own
And this is a different kind of sad, but sad all the same: Now Tinder Wants You to Have Your First Date on Tinder
Let’s end on a high note: Today’s global climate strike, led by 16-year-old superhero Greta Thunberg, is massive
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My boyfriend of five years has a 24-year-old daughter who lived with him until a few months ago. I was supposed to move in at the time, but due to my job we have to wait another year. He asked her to move back in with him because he has never lived alone and can’t bear it. Well, she’s thinking about it to save money because he will not charge her anything. She’s an RN and has a decent income. The problem is that I stay with him on the weekends and it becomes uncomfortable. I find their relationship odd. She sends him pictures of herself whenever she’s dressed up. I also find that he will rub her back in the same manner as when he rubs mine. It turns my stomach. I feel like I’m the other woman. I didn’t grow up with a father, so I’m not sure if it’s odd or just my insecurities. — Feeling Second To His Daughter
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