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Back home

A few years after my divorce, I was seized by the idea that I should seek an annulment. I had no idea why, but the…


Prisoner of fantasy

Two years ago, I began writing to a man in prison. I had heard about his energy for life and his sex appeal. I fell…



The party’s over

Should I end my three-year marriage? I’m nearly 30, and I have outgrown college partying (I don’t drink or smoke), but my husband hasn’t. He…


Heed red flags

After a month of dating a man I met online, I felt it was time for him to meet my 7-year-old son. I invited my…


The virtual other woman

Last November, I received an e-mail at work from a woman I had worked with 15 years prior. We’ve been bantering back and forth, on…


Why spy?

I became friends online with a Canadian man and with a female friend of his in our online community. She told me that they had…



Borderline mom

I am 26 years old and really angry at my mom. She calls me daily for emotional support, and I give it but get none…


War and peace

When my friend Steve’s wife filed for divorce, her reason stunned him. “She said it was because we never argue,” he said. “I thought that…


Lent experiment

I have been married for six years to an unhappy man. He is honest, and we both have professional careers, although he hates his job….


Busted

I am a single dad of a 16-year-old daughter. I discovered that my little girl has been taking herbal breast-enhancement supplements ordered online with a…


Ghetto moments

Two years after my husband’s death, I met a guy and fell in love. He moved in with me and my kids. My home was…



Sexual addiction

I have a terrible addiction to sex. The trouble starts Saturday morning. If I don’t have plans with my live-in girlfriend or friends, I browse…


The relationship path

I dated a young lady and was unfaithful, ungrateful and stoned. When I saw my self-hate and how I was slowly destroying her, I broke…