Hi Meredith, I am a 22-year-old recent college graduate who has moved back to Boston with family. I am working temp office positions while searching for my "dream job." I am also in a weird place relationship-wise. After getting out…

Hi Meredith!   Dating has not been going my way for some time now. I'm a gay man in my 20s living in Seattle. I'm a full-time PhD student attempting to balance dating with other aspects of my life like…

Dear Meredith and Esteemed Commenters, I am a 27-year-old man. I am currently dating (but not really dating) two women. The first woman is 42. She is extremely attractive. She is married, though. Her husband travels for work about half…

Hello! I am a 29-year-old woman and have been single for many years. In my last relationship, I threw myself into his life and pushed aside things that were important to me. I didn't see it then, but he didn't…

I’m a male (30s) who's never been in a relationship and has tried, unsuccessfully, to online date for almost seven years. Most of my dates end with a genuine "let's hang out again as friends." I've made several incredibly close…

For me, it would mean being in a relationship for the first time.

It generally takes these women four to five dates to make their decision, but ... whatever happened to letting the love grow with time?

She's the most beautiful person I've ever met, and everyone I know adores her and warned against me letting her go.

In short, life is about as good as it gets for a single woman in this world. But I lack and still crave the physical and emotional intimacy of a long-term relationship.

Meredith, I am concerned that my romantic life seems to have stalled, and I have little optimism. I am a 39-year-old man. My recent dates with women have not resulted in a second one. Some dates have gone OK, in…

And it was a two-way feeling with the texting – she asked me what I was doing, etc.

... none of them want a serious relationship, or even want to show up for me in the way I show up for them and their loved ones

I’m a 45-year-old attractive and accomplished divorced woman, a physician, and have children. Other than my marriage, I’ve had one relationship that lasted more than a year and felt healthy and blissful – until a friend sent me a photo…

Dear Meredith, Some background: I'm a 46-year-old woman, born and raised in Europe, came to the U.S. decades ago. When I was in my late 20s, I married a nice man. After seven years of what I thought was a…

Six-months after meeting this amazing woman at an event, I asked her to marry me. A year later, she broke off the engagement. That was a few years ago. We met when I was in my mid-50s and she was…

Dear Meredith, Over two decades ago, a man I loved very much ended our relationship. I was pretty devastated at the time, but life carried on. I've always remembered him fondly. Almost a year ago, this same man found me…

Dear Meredith, Just now I read the letter someone wrote to you about suddenly realizing they might be in love with their friend. Presumably their friend is single, which makes things much less complicated. Because while I totally identified with…

Dear Meredith, I’ve been Caspered. On a dating app, I made an instant and valued connection with an amazing young lady. She's normally very cautious to proceed through the progression of steps in an online relationship. But we hit it…

There are so many more amazing women in the world than men.

I was married for 10 years. We had two kids and all was well on the surface, but I wasn't happy. We were so broke, and my husband wasn't even trying. I thought I could live on my own and…

A question on etiquette for online dating.

Let me first say that my dating history is very bare. I can't get a guy's interest, and when I do, he ghosts me in a pretty short period. I met "Dave" about two years ago through a dating app.…

Dear Meredith, I'm a 28-year-old guy who has moderate success getting numbers, but sometimes I struggle to get to the first date. I'm a history major and serious writer and have a hard time coping with the limited nature of…

Do I have to install parental locks to get myself off Tinder?

I'll get dressed up and go out, but men never approach me or flirt with me.