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Archived questions from: January, 2018 (see latest in Breaking up category)

Breaking up: Help and advice

Should I call it quits and move on?

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2276 days ago

30 January 2018 (F) - Dear Cupid, I think my relationship might be over, or it as been for a long time now...or maybe it’s not? Anyway... Myself (24/25 this year) and partner (23/24 this year) have been together for almost three and a half years and I/we are h...

The tickets have been bought, time planned but I don't want to go see my boyfriend

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2277 days ago

30 January 2018 (F) - I have a plane ticket to go see my boyfriend this weekend. It's our anniversary and his uncle has gifted us with concert tickets and dinner. His uncle went through a lot of planning and prepping for this, because he's a really great guy and his aunt ...

Seven Year Relationship - Ended Over Phone Call

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2275 days ago

29 January 2018 (F) - Hi friends... It's been ages since I posted here, however I'm stuck in yet another dilemma. I live with my boyfriend ('fiance') of 18 years. I never got to date, or try others, since I was 13/14 when we started dating. The first few years were g...

The thought of breaking up with my boyfriend is hard but I can't get the new girl out of my head

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2276 days ago

27 January 2018 (F) - Hello! I have a sticky situation and need advice on what to do. My boyfriend and I have been together for roughly two years, we have had plenty of ups and downs during this time. He has been steadfast through each fight, though, as have I, u...

Should I get someone else to tell him I am not going on the cruise?

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2276 days ago

27 January 2018 (F) - Thank you for your patience... First some background; week before Christmas my soon to be EX apologised for hitting me, minutes later I said “that will be the last time you touch me like that!” He immediately erupted too accuse me of hitting him ...

I want to know if I am crazy for wanting him back!

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2260 days ago

26 January 2018 (F) - I had been with my ex boyfriend for 10 years, we were both leaving in the same city. We met in University . He is 32 and I am 27. After finishing his degree he had been looking for a stable job for a while, he was lucky enough to get two job offers ...

How do I detach myself emotionally from him before actually telling him it's over if I decide I don't want this anymore?

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2282 days ago

24 January 2018 (M) - I've been with my boyfriend for five years. To be honest things haven't been right since the second year. I met my boyfriend on online dating. I was 22 and he was 25. We are now 27 and hes 30.At the time he told me he was in and out of a gardening ...

My boyfriend's mother is a little too involved in our relationship

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2281 days ago

24 January 2018 (F) - Hey everyone wondering if anyone can offer some friendly advice on my situation. I've been with my boyfriend about a year and a half although we split in the summer for a couple months due to not getting on and silly little arguments. My boyfriend ...

I wanted our mutual breakup to end on a good note but it hasn't and I am not coping with it

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2281 days ago

24 January 2018 (M) - I was with my girlfriend since last two years, n we were good together. She always relied on me whenever she needed me even for d most small of her requirements but den few months back, according to our Hindu mythology we matched our stars or as we ...

Is this what to expect after 10 years? Or has my relationship run its course?

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2283 days ago

23 January 2018 (F) - Hi, I've been with my partner for over 10 years now. I'm not sure what to expect out of the relationship. If I'm looking for too much and it's unrealistic. I feel like we don't have anything in common anymore. He just plays computer games a...

Why do you think he unblocked my number and responded to me, and do you think there is

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2279 days ago

23 January 2018 (F) - I was seeing someone ( we would have been together exactly a year next month) , but he broke up with me just over a week ago. We had an on and off relationship . He broke up with me because he said he has depression and was put on anti depressa...

Do I stay? I have a lot to consider! Any advice would be helpful!

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2283 days ago

23 January 2018 (M) - My problem is quite complex and works across a number of different levels and areaa. So i want to break it down and look at some of them piece by piece. The under pinning issue is that 18 months ago i moved from the UK to Norway (Oslo) to be with ...

Is it wrong of me to say I would leave my girlfriend if she became an addict? Is it right of her to say that I can't keep things that might "tempt" her around?

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2282 days ago

23 January 2018 (F) - I was having a conversation with my girlfriend the other day about her being upset because her brothers have started smoking weed again. I have no problem with weed. I've smoked it before myself, but apparently for them it starts them on harder ...

A guy I was dating said how hot my sister was, and I dumped him the same night! Am I overreacting?

This question has 16 answers - newest was posted 2280 days ago

22 January 2018 (F) - Hey, everyone. So I met a guy a few weeks ago and we have been on 3 dates total. I enjoyed my time with him and he's quirky in the way that he thinks and he can come off like an ass, not in a malicious way, but it intrigues me and he has treated me ...

I can’t figure out what happened with him?!?

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2283 days ago

21 January 2018 (F) - So I was talking to this guy for like some months now. We found each other online though we already knew each other beforehand, we started talking in a dating manner only from like 4 months before... so i had never really met him after we started ...

What hope for this relationship?

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2284 days ago

21 January 2018 (F) - I’m heartbroken and confused by all of this and appreciate any insight. Please bear with me and my story. I’m 30 and he’s 32. He’s Single. Never married. About 6 months ago, our friendship progressed to us having mutual feelings towards each other. ...

He's abusive and I need to get out

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2286 days ago

21 January 2018 (F) - I'm going through a really difficult period in my life and don't know what to do. How to restart and go on... I'm 41 and have been with my husband for 15 years, no kids. Good times and bad. Well now things have gotten pretty bad. The good times y...

Is it mean to ghost someone who is nice but you just don't want to see anymore?

This question has 13 answers - newest was posted 2281 days ago

19 January 2018 (F) - Would it be mean to ghost, a guy who treated you good for over six months, but it just isn't working for you, I don't want to cry when I break up with him in person, so I just want to block him, my girlfriend tells me, that be cruel,not giving him a ...

My ex treated me badly, now I don't have the confidence to date again.

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2290 days ago

17 January 2018 (F) - I don't think I'm still fully over what happened with my ex/ex friend and it still affects potential dating. It's been over a year now since I last saw him. We started out as friends, then it became more, but he wasn't treating me well so I ended ...

I’m feeling guilty for our breakup!

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2287 days ago

17 January 2018 (F) - First of I was married for 7 years I have two boys they r young 3 and 7. I divorced my husband can give a straight reason we just didn’t get along couldn’t work as a team. It was like we where against each other all the time. He was depressed and I ...

Ending Long-term Relationship

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2291 days ago

15 January 2018 (F) - I currently live with my boyfriend of almost 4 years. We live 2 hours from our home town due to me being in college and us wanting to be closer to each other. We've lived in an apartment for almost 8 months, but since living together he plays games ...

I thought my luck had changed! Now what?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2292 days ago

14 January 2018 (F) - Hi, I have just come out of relationship with a wonderful guy, i was never treated as good in my life before by any guy, he brought me everywhere, family functions and so on, he was always very affectionate towards me, forehead kisses which are ...

I’ve been the primary breadwinner for most of our relationship!

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2293 days ago

13 January 2018 (F) - I have been dating my partner for 2 years now. Before getting together I expressed to him that as a single parent with big goals I need someone motivated who will pull their weight and he said that was easy. At the time he was a manager at a loca...

HE wants to play games with his ex, but I am not sure about it.

This question has 9 answers - newest was posted 2294 days ago

12 January 2018 (F) - Hi, I started an LDR a week ago, we talk every day, everything is good. But he just got out of a 3months relationship ( his ex gf ended it..) Now, she's texting him, and he wants to go with it. wtich means he just wants to make fun of her and make...

I feel stuck,I know I love him but don't know if I can trust him.

This question has 9 answers - newest was posted 2296 days ago

10 January 2018 (F) - I’ll spare the gory details, but I dated this guy for about 9 months (September ‘16 - Jun ‘17). It was the happiest relationship of my life. I was the first to say I love you (which I’ve never done before) about 6 months in; he said it, then took it ...

I feel too shamed to talk to my family

This question has 9 answers - newest was posted 2292 days ago

10 January 2018 (F) - Sorry this is a lot but I need to get it off my chest as its too shameful to tell my family and friends. I met an ex vet on Instagram. We fell in love through each others art. He lives in the US and I live in the UK. There is a 20 year age gap betw...

Feel as though needs arn't being met in relationship.

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2296 days ago

8 January 2018 (F) - I need advice about my current relationship. I’ve been with my boyfriend for almost 4 years and we currently live together, but we were really good friends 3 years before we started dating. The past few months I’ve felt as though my boyfrien...

He ended it after 15 years and I can't move on

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2297 days ago

7 January 2018 (F) - hi my name is carol and upto 3 years ago i was havein an afair it lasted 15years but one day he said he couldet see me any more but never realy said why i was deversteted and still am thort after all them years i desevred better i still miss him and ...

Any chance he will come back?

This question has 2 answers - newest was posted 2300 days ago

6 January 2018 (F) - We dated for 6 months and our releationship was very passionate.He broke up with me because of his depression as he later explained.Then after 5 months he texted me asking for a second chance promising he would not repeat the same mistakes and i ...

I want marriage and he wants kids!

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2301 days ago

6 January 2018 (F) - I am a 28 years old female who already has a child with my ex boyfriend I have never been married , i am now in a relationship with a 37 years old man who does not have a child we do not live together and we are in a long distance relationship. ...

Is this the time to break up?

This question has 2 answers - newest was posted 2299 days ago

6 January 2018 (F) - I am in relationship with my bf 3 years, he keep hiding his life of me, hiding his facebook and his phone. I ask him why he's doing that and he never gives an answer. We break up 3 time and we return to each other because I loved him so much. the ...

New girfriend wants marriage .... I don't!

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2301 days ago

5 January 2018 (M) - Simple situation, I've recently walked out on a 18 year marriage, we've lived apart or part-time for the last 2 years. We have no children, fury babies only. She has the lions share of income and I was not satisfied in our relationship, we simply ...

Do I contact him over this rude breakup?

This question has 10 answers - newest was posted 2298 days ago

5 January 2018 (F) - I got in from work to find a email off my boyfriend saying because I'm not an animal person (he has a cat) it won't work out. I have a cat myself. He has blocked me off everything and I don’t know why so I can’t ask him. I knew he was having a few ...

Behavior towards my ex girlfriend who cheated and lied, did I act good?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2302 days ago

4 January 2018 (M) - So I'm 19 year old guy and I was in a relationship with a cute girl, she's 17. After a month she dumps me over text. She was even planning for us to go to the gym together. 2 weeks later I found out out that she has cheated on me and got in a rel...

He's in jail, should I tell him how I feel?

This question has 20 answers - newest was posted 2299 days ago

4 January 2018 (F) - So, back in March 2017 I started meeting with a guy I’ve liked for ages! We met about 4 years ago because he is my cousins best friend and so he attended a lot of family events and things like that. We have flirted with each other for a long time ...

The ex is bad mouthing me to another man. Why would he do this?

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2303 days ago

3 January 2018 (F) - Around five months ago for God knows why the guy I was currently going out with ended the relationship with me saying it was too much and the break up was not mutual. I still have him on social media and he has supposedly assumed I've moved on with ...

I believe he has ended things for good this time and I just don't know what to do

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2304 days ago

2 January 2018 (F) - Hello everyone I've been with my partner for 4 years and we have a 21 month old child together. My partner has always been very loving and caring. However, from the second year, I started to emotionally drain him - I would say nasty things and...

How do I get over a girl and how do I stop feeling like I constantly need to be in a relationship?

This question has 2 answers - newest was posted 2294 days ago

2 January 2018 (M) - In my Sophmore year of high school I thought that I met my dream girl and my future wife. All through out middle school I was very self conscious and i would get nervous around every girl I talked to. Once I met K that all changed for me, she was ...

LDR boyfriend is pushing me away. Do I stay or end it?

This question has 2 answers - newest was posted 2296 days ago

1 January 2018 (F) - I have been in a relationship with him for 2 years now, but he left about a month ago to live overseas. He says he wants me there but makes no effort to get a job and when he is offered one and the pay is good, he doesn't want it because the status ...

He wants to get married and start a family, I want to break up for good but he's like an addiction that I can't shake off

This question has 2 answers - newest was posted 2306 days ago

1 January 2018 (F) - I had been dating a man off and on for 3 years now. He wants to get married and start a family and I am the one who has major reservations. Our relationship has not been the most stable so until it is, marriage makes me nervous. I do love him. And ...

My ex still loves me but I don't want to hurt my current boyfriend.

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2301 days ago

1 January 2018 (?) - I suddenly met my ex in a wedding a month ago. He still loves me the same and love me though he know I'm in a new relationship. He always treated me a way far better than my present one. I don't want to hurt anyone. But I'm stuckedin between two. ...