Wayne and Wanda

Relationship advice: Testing out the dating pool with dead-end flings isn’t a bad thing. But once you want more, you might need to dive deeper to find more serious potential partners.

Relationship advice: There might be some levels of insecurity at play here — hers, or yours.

Relationship advice: Direct communication is the best way to maintain trust.

Relationship advice: Focusing on what you can control — your relationship with your partner’s family — can help. But it might also be time for your boyfriend to step things up a notch.

In this situation, Wayne and Wanda are stressing communication and compromise when it comes to resolution of the engagement stalemate.

Can this issue be settled with communication and compromise or is it a case of a person too set in their own ways?

Advice: Rational, personal discussion — with plenty of input from the future college student — is the best way to make a decision.

Relationship advice: Communicating what you want and need might scare some potential partners away. But that’s not a bad thing.

From room temperature to blanket coverage and alarm clocks, this couple is on opposite poles.

Relationship advice: Your significant other’s friend group doesn’t have to be your friend group — and that’s just fine.

Advice: Helping your friend figure out what she wants — or syncing her up with a wedding planner — could be one way to untangle what your wedding experiences will be like.

Relationship advice: As this reader wonders whether they’re dating the wrong type of people, there are lessons to learn about getting out of a bad situation and assessing future relationship prospects.

Relationship advice from Wayne and Wanda: Is there hope when one partner is on their phone all the time?

Wayne and Wanda say it’s time to consider everything in the past and decide what you want a future to look like.

Relationship advice: The concept of beauty is deeply personal, and being supportive is probably the best course of action.