From the outside, my family looks perfect. Great house, lovely kids, level-headed and giving parents. However, my spouse and I have not been truly romantic in well over a decade. He is sorry, but violated trust to such a degree…

Hi Meredith, I’m 33, my boyfriend is 34. We went to school together as kids. We reconnected when we started talking through Facebook messenger, which led to texting, then calling, then three months later I moved in with him. He's…

I have been dating this guy for over a year now and he says he doesn't want to introduce me to his family or acquaintances because he is trying to protect me from their "bad ways." He doesn't even want…

I want us prepared to confront what will likely be judgement.

I fell apart during the time we were separated.

I've been involved with a married/separated woman for about a year and a half. She and her not-quite-ex were both friends of mine for many years. We all do work in creative arts and have collaborated on and off. After…

I've been in a relationship with a much younger man for over two years now, and have known him for about three and a half. I mostly got to know him by phone before we really got together. People can…

In my eyes, our relationship hasn't progressed at all in a public way.

I can't bring anything up if an ex was involved at all.

I'm in my early 40s and met this amazing guy. The relationship took off immediately. I adored him. He broke up with me, though, for putting pressure on him to have a child. He wants kids too, and I felt…

Aside from breaking and entering, he touched my belongings.

I'm with a woman I love dearly. We are in our 40s. We were friends for 10 years before we got involved. The details of us getting involved are complicated. She separated from her husband a year ago. We had…

My daughter, 20, has special needs and lives with me. She is absolutely a joy and is quite easy to live with.

She has a big hook on my husband. He will do anything for her.

After a (too extended) stay over the holidays with my parents, things boiled over.

I'm writing this sitting in my house alone with a Christmas tree up, which is just mocking me.

I have been dating my boyfriend for a year now. We have lived together for about nine months and we also work together. I have two girls, ages 17 and one in her 20s. I don't really have to deal…

Dear Meredith, I’m dealing with a struggle that I know I’m not alone in, yet I feel so alone when it comes to finding the answer. I recently became engaged to an absolutely wonderful man. He’s 31, I am 28,…

We're always either speaking transactionally about upcoming family logistics and moving onto the next thing ... or fighting.

I'd like to move in less than a month, whether he comes with me or not.

I was with my ex for seven years. We were married, had kids, and he had a lot of issues. We both did. He turned out to having a drug problem and developed a dangerous and violent drinking habit. We…

My husband and I deeply love our daughter, but sometimes when parenting gets frustrating, we have to be very careful not to get super annoyed at her for entering our two-person bubble.

Dear Meredith, How do couples find couple time when their kids stop going to bed long before the parents do? By the time we get our kids to bed, we're too drained even to have kid-free conversations about important things,…

I think he's a skeeze for actively pursuing a relationship with her in secret despite the stark power imbalance and the strong possibility she would lose her job.

Is it normal that he is still hiding me from his friends and children (youngest in high school)?