Voices

My husband is in Iraq serving in the military, and we’ve been apart three years. He calls and e-mails, but he’s not affectionate long-distance. My…

Scarce second dates and self-trust issues.

Wherever I go, people litter. Someone in the car in front of me throws wrappers into the street. A young man walking down the sidewalk…

I am in love with my sister, and it causes me anguish. Before you cast a moral judgment, my sister is not a sister in…

My girlfriend of nine years and I broke up—over shorts. Two years later, I am still really sad about it. I wanted some athletic shorts,…

My husband is leaving me for a woman 20 years his junior. I told him she was a threat years ago. He even participated in…

If I date a woman who I have to chase, I get needy, and she breaks up with me. I grovel, trying to get her…

My husband and I fight a lot. We went to counseling, but I felt let down because the counselor told us what we should not…

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…

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…

I am thinking of leaving my husband because of my stepson. We get his kids every other weekend, along with my son. (My daughter lives…

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…

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…

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…

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…

My boyfriend is not as motivated toward achieving things in his life as I am. He is content with his life as it is. He…