Advice Column

Okay, so I’ve been dating this girl for about a year. She recently made a new group of friends that I have not met and it includes several guys. One of the guys in this group asked her if she would have dinner with him just as friends. He knows she’s dating me. They went out to dinner and split the bill. She said he didn’t hit on her.

I’m completely against the situation, I think it’s too easy to turn into a bad situation. If they had known each other for a long time i would feel differently. Am I being too jealous?

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My fiancée and I have been together for three years, but lately the relationship feels more like a friendship than a romantic partnership. I’ve brought it up several times because something feels off emotionally and physically. We barely kiss, rarely have sex, and I’m almost always the one initiating affection. She loves hugging and caring for me in practical ways, but intimacy feels almost completely absent.

When I try to explain this, she tells me she loves me and says she wouldn’t treat her friends the way she treats me. But that misses the point for me. I know there are different kinds of love, and what I’m feeling from her no longer feels romantic or passionate. It feels safe and caring, but not intimate.

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My husband and I are expecting our first baby later this year after trying for a long time. He’s finishing a career training program and was offered a rare instructor course that could seriously help his future career. It’s considered the best and fastest path, but the training happens during the exact week our baby is due and would require him to travel out of state for a full week.

He told me he’d let me decide, but also admitted he’d probably feel resentment if he missed the opportunity.

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I met this girl a couple of weeks ago and we really hit it off. She’s charismatic, smart, pretty, and has a great career. After a couple of dates she told me she has bipolar disorder and asked if I wanted to cancel the next date. I said no, but now I keep hearing horror stories about relationships with people who have bipolar disorder, and honestly I’m scared to move forward.

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I’m 25 and my girlfriend is 23. She has a noticeable facial scar, and my family has always made jokes about it because they have a dark sense of humor. I kept telling her that’s just how they are and that they didn’t actually mean anything by it, but she’s never liked being around them because of it.

A few months ago, my parents hosted a big birthday dinner for my dad and I really wanted my girlfriend to come. She was hesitant because she was worried my family would say something rude again. I reassured her that everything would be fine and told her it mattered to me that she be there. She finally agreed, but she warned me that if my family crossed the line again, I better not defend it or minimize it.

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My wife and I had a really ugly fight recently. We kept it private at first because my parents were visiting. During those few days, she became distant with them too and barely spoke unless necessary.

Then her parents suddenly came over, and I realized she had been sharing every detail of our fights and relationship problems with them. What started as a private issue between us turned into a confrontation between both families. My wife and my mother got into a loud argument in front of everyone. I tried to stay calm at first, but eventually I snapped too and said hurtful things. At one point, her parents even suggested that if we do not want to stay together, we should separate.

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I used to think people were exaggerating when they said some women only care about money, status, or what a man can offer until I experienced something that changed my perspective.

I liked a girl I worked with. We sat next to each other, and from the beginning there was obvious mutual interest. But over time things started feeling inconsistent. Replies became slower, sometimes she would not respond at all, and the excuse was always that she was busy.

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