I wouldn't want her to resent me in the future.

I am in a long-distance relationship with a man where we see each other every three to four weeks. We have known each other for many years. Prior to being with me, he was active on a dating website where…

Hi Meredith,  I have been in a relationship with my partner for 10 years, since I was 18, and I married him a year and a half ago (no ceremony, just the paper). But we have been, and still to…

I really thought we might become something special, even with the distance between us.

Dear Meredith, I'm a 30-year-old man who has a female friend who used to be a fling. She's getting married in a year, and I'd like some advice about whether I should share my feelings with her before then. Backstory:…

We both agree that nothing like this has ever happened to us in our lifetime

Dear Meredith, I fell in love with someone March of 2021, and about a year later he told me it was best if we parted ways. He wanted to move to another state because he had a dream of accomplishing…

Hi Meredith, I found the man and the relationship of my dreams, and then I got stuck abroad because of the pandemic. We kept things up via a long-distance relationship, visits, etc., but with my return date out of my…

I felt anxious and stressed.

We'll have to try to have a long-distant relationship, which I've never had (only thinking about that makes me anxious).

Dear Meredith, A few months ago I met a man who I think might be the one. I'm in law school and he's a young professional. We met right before I moved to Boston to start my program. He's still…

Shortly after turning 30 in 2019, I started dating the sweetest woman of all time. Though we had different political views on certain issues and came from different religious backgrounds, we made it work. Of all the people I brought…

I am 40 and have the worst luck with men. It's probably not as bad as I see it, but I am so discouraged by the caliber of men I meet. I want a good man, not young-minded male who…

Dear Meredith, I'm still in love with my ex. I live in Florida and he lives in my hometown, Chicago. I met him online last year, so I decided to stay with my mom in Chicago to start a relationship…

I met this guy on a dating app. He was hilarious, kind, and he also seemed thoroughly interested in me. We hit it off immediately and started talking about how he's supposed to get a huge job in Ohio. Almost…

Dear Meredith, My boyfriend (25) and I (23) have been together for a little over two years. We met during my senior year of college and grew a lot closer during the pandemic because we lived close to one another.…

In 2019 I saw him for the first time in Boston (we agreed to see each other somewhere we both had never been).

I told him I want more, which is when he set boundaries. Hugs, no kisses.

All of my friends who were in different transportation areas of Boston either have moved to be closer to partners or split up.

During my time talking to her, she showed a pattern of only answering non-serious questions and not answering serious questions or only answering them if I followed up multiple times.

He told me he didn’t want to live without me and he had always imagined kids and marriage with me but right now he needs to get himself right.

At the end of the semester, he told me that he liked me but agreed that he didn't want to do long-distance or have a serious relationship at this point.

In this world, there's flights, phones, and social media. To me, it wouldn't be that hard to hang on to what we have, even if that means we have to have it in a different form.

The closer it gets, the more I don’t want to go.

I just don't think that for her happiness or my own, I can realistically remain in her life the way I hoped.