Delicate balance
How can I best find balance with family, partner, daughter, alone time, grad school, thesis, intimacy, work, athletics, etc.? Ditch the pie-chart mentality, that perfectionist…
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Negative motivation
I am 39-year-old, never-married, childless female who is an adult child of two alcoholics (an ACA). I am once again having to look at 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…
Love the frog you’re with
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…
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….
No friend but me
My roommate of four years and I are really good friends. We treat each other like sisters. My family loves her, and her family loves…
Our Father
I dated a co-worker who recently admitted he had another relationship. He made it sound like he had sex with this other woman because I…
Who’s your daddy?
I am pregnant and stuck between two possible fathers. I foolishly told both men that I am pregnant. They both want to be there for…
Marrying Peter Pan
In 10 years, my 40-year-old boyfriend has proposed twice, and twice he broke it off, saying he was not ready for marriage. He is brilliant…
When the boss is a jerk
I lost a job I loved. A few weeks ago, a troubled client beat me up. I reported this to a co-worker (my boss was…
Almost perfect
My boyfriend has the qualities that I want in a husband: kindness, depth, compassion, generosity and a positive outlook. He is a good communicator with…
From teacher to student
Dear readers, I have met a multitude of spiritual teachers in my lifetime. Many are quite famous, and others are not. My friend Byron Katie…
Advice for the betrothed
What every bride and groom should know.
Just ask!
I’ve been a single mom for five years. Several times a week for the last two years, I have chatted with a wonderful man while…
How far is too far?
Why is it so scary for adults to think that people our age (15 and 16 years old) are having sex? Why is it such…
New Age fundamentalist
I was having a purely social conversation with my sister’s friend and it seemed that she responded to everything I said with a self-help book…
Basic courtesy
As a nurse, I have “crossed the line” by giving patients rides or buying them food. I befriended a former patient with a terminal illness…