I'm 23 years old, and this is going to sound so utterly foolish because so many years have gone by. My first relationship was long-distance. I was 15/16 and my ex was 20. He didn't tell me his age at…
Met "TH" in college. We connected, sparks, etc. But as he puts it, "She was too shy and I was too high." Over the years we would reconnect periodically, but it never got serious. New Year's 2011, I was set…
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…
My ex contacted me a year after our breakup. She (28) broke up with me last year after a 10-year relationship. She started developing feelings for her male best best friend. I (a 27-year-old man) worked on myself during that…
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…
Recently I got a message from a guy I dated three years ago. We only dated for about two or three months. From what I remember, it ended amicably because we agreed there wasn't a strong romantic connection. However we…
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…
Hi Meredith. I've had a pretty turbulent two and half years. I sold my business and house, moved to a different area and set up new business, divorced my husband/business partner of 21 years after I fell deeply in love…
I've recently reconnected with my ex boyfriend. We were together for three years before he left me for another woman (they were together one month after we broke up). It left me crushed and heartbroken. The stupid thing is that…
She said to remember that I broke up with her over a year ago and she's heard very little from me, so I shouldn't be surprised that she's with someone.