Dear Meredith/Love Letters, I'm writing to you from "down under" (Australia). I'd like to thank you for your podcast and writing. My query is this: my partnership of five years came to an end in January of this year. He's…

Why do I still hope he will change and grow someday?

Meredith, I’m an avid listener of Love Letters (the podcast) and wanted to reach out for your advice on my complex romantic situation. I had been involved with a non-monogamous man for a few months, who already has a partner…

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

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, 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…

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.…

I do believe he is the love of my life, and at 50, that's something.

Can you offer some advice on how to battle insecurity and trust issues? I have had long-term relationships that ended very badly resulting in these insecurities. I am working through them as best as I can, however, I can't seem…

I got a text from him saying he was moving a bale of hay and it fell off the tractor and landed on him.

After months of the silent treatment I gave up and tried (unsuccessfully) to move on.

But over time I've started to imagine myself as the coyote, continually chasing the Road Runner, and every scheme ends with me falling off a cliff.

I told him I understand; things happen.

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.

I started to call her but thought, "I’ll let her reach out to me next." She didn't.

I reached out to her twice during the early weeks of the pandemic to see how she was doing, but never heard back.

How many times can you get shot down while still trying to remain genuine and embrace your individuality?

He said and did all the right things to make me think we were on the same page.