So, your sweetheart hates Alaska winters. Here are some ways to ease the pain (for you, too)
Relationship advice: Stop trying push your grumpy, winter-hating man or woman into snowy, moonlit hikes and afternoons ice skating. Do these things instead.
Advice
January isn’t even half-over, and I already feel like I’m failing at all my resolutions.
Advice: It’s not too early -- or too late -- to hit reset on your resolutions and make some positive changes that stick. Be SMART and try these tips.
I want a house, marriage and kids with my boyfriend. How do I say that without scaring him off?
Relationship advice: I’m 33, and I know it’s cliché but the clock is ticking, and I want to do these things with my boyfriend but I feel like he doesn’t get the pressure or the timing.
The guys I date always say they’re ‘too busy’ for a relationship
Relationship advice: Why can’t I find a guy who wants a real relationship with me?
I think my boyfriend is going to propose soon; I don’t want to break up, but I’m not ready to get married
Relationship advice: “I love him, and I do see us getting married -- some day. But an engagement right now feels way too fast. I am now sure he is going to propose at Christmas or New Year’s and I don’t know what to do.”
Just a picturesque New Year’s retreat at a cabin with our closest friends — and my boyfriend’s ex
Relationship advice: I am not excited about celebrating New Year’s at a remote cabin with her and I think my boyfriend and I should skip it and stay home. Am I being crazy?
My girlfriend’s obsession with Christmas has taken over our lives. Help!
Relationship advice: All we can watch and listen to is holiday-themed, and she’s lined up “dates” for us to go to bazaars, craft shows and holiday performances every single weekend.
The holidays are a lonely time for me. How can I get through it without being miserable?
Relationship advice: I have no kids and no family in the area. My friends are all busy with their own kids and partners this time of year. I feel like I’ve tried everything to make the holidays positive and nothing works.
A life of cozy co-habitation with my boyfriend is really packing on the pounds.
Relationship advice: If I go the gym by myself after work, we’ll hardly get to see each other. How I can work in some fitness time together without putting a strain on my relationship?
My boyfriend can’t pay his rent, but still won’t stop buying rounds of drinks for our friends
We live together and he often comes up short on his end of expenses, yet he never hesitates to pay for huge groups when we’re out with our friends. He doesn’t see how the two are connected.
Now that my divorce is final, my friends won’t stop trying to set me up with guys
One girlfriend then set up a Tinder account on my behalf and “revealed” this to me after she had connected with and carried on chats with several guys. Ugh!
He wanted to keep our fling a secret. Now he’s dating my friend and I look like the bad guy.
Relationship advice: He told my friend we’d been together and now she’s mad at me. I feel like he threw me under the bus to make himself look good!
My husband’s job means he’s on the road a lot. I can’t stop worrying he’ll cheat on me.
Relationship advice: “I just feel totally inadequate and mistrustful, and it’s really killing me.”
Readers weigh in on young couple that wants to get frisky but still lives at home
Relationship advice: Both are living with their parents to save money — and having a tough time finding a place to fool around. Readers wrote in with their sympathy, impatience and even some tips.
When I caught my husband chatting with his ex, he lied about it — and then he lied some more
Relationship advice: There are perfectly reasonable ways to maintain relationships with people from our pasts. But if you have to lie to your partner, you clearly shouldn’t be doing it.
For these debt-stricken millennials, living with parents is a lifeline — and a dating conundrum
Relationship advice: “We can’t afford hotels and also obviously at a certain point a relationship becomes more serious and you want to spend time together. Advice?”
As newlyweds, we have debt. We should use our PFDs on that and not blow it on a honeymoon ... right?
I think our PFDs should go to the credit card. He wants us to pool our PFDs and have an amazing week in Hawaii.
The completely correct guide to getting off a plane
Deplaning is a facet of travel that can get people very riled up.
I thought he was my boyfriend. Then he said we’re not ‘technically together.'
Relationship advice: Maybe we were doomed to be casual only? I don’t know, but I really like this guy and I want to get him to take us more seriously.
My girlfriend keeps dragging me to boring events. How can I get out of them with my relationship intact?
I’ve told her I just don’t enjoy myself. She says that’s not the point.