Advice: I have been dating my boyfriend a year, and he doesn’t even know “Jeff” exists. This seems like a terrible time to tell him as he will get the wrong idea, but now I feel like I am hiding something.
Advice: My friends joke that she’s just biding her time to when we’re married so she can be a housewife, and I am starting to wonder if that’s true.
Relationship advice: She wants to stay close with her ex’s sister. Wayne doesn’t see anything wrong with that; Wanda disagrees.
Relationship advice: My best friend from childhood moved up here in November and has been staying with me. It should be this great thing, but she’s driving me crazy!
Relationship advice: My friends say I should let all this go, but they don’t understand how badly he hurt me, and how much I want to protect this poor woman who’s currently dating him. Advice?
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: 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.
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.
Relationship advice: Why can’t I find a guy who wants a real relationship with me?
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.”
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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!
Relationship advice: “I just feel totally inadequate and mistrustful, and it’s really killing me.”
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.
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.
