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Archived questions from: December, 2016 (see latest in Family category)

Family: Help and advice

I still haven't met his teenage daughter after a year of dating and I'm tired of feeling like a mistress

This question has 26 answers - newest was posted 2748 days ago

30 December 2016 (F) - Hi everyone! I've been dating my BF for over a year now and he has a 14 told daughter. last year, two months into our relationship, he suddenly disappears for 2 months without even a text or a call. Although I had just started to date him, I w...

He is two different boyfriends in one. Mr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He's making me feel scared. what should I do?

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2857 days ago

30 December 2016 (F) - MODNOTE FREE UK resources added by the Moderator: http://www.nationaldomesticviolencehelpline.org.uk/if-you-are-a-woman-experiencing-domestic-violence.aspx Phone 0808 2000 247 in UK and http://www.refuge.org.uk/what-we-do/our-services/helpline/ ...

What do I do? Don't want to split up. Yet also don't want a Bf who behaves like a cheater 2.

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2877 days ago

30 December 2016 (F) - hiya everyone me and my fiance have been together for 3 years. A few month ago he started to add women on facebook the women he added were the type of women he said he would like as a girlfriend. I asked him why he was adding them (he hardly uses ...

Why is this happening? He has no time for me. I am fed up and ready to just walk away!

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2877 days ago

30 December 2016 (F) - My boyfriend and i have been together for four years now we have three girls together and now we are having problems because he doesn't involve me in any part of his life what so ever. He doesn't invite me out anywhere when he goes out with his...

He lies about money, I am fed up with being his doormat!

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2662 days ago

30 December 2016 (F) - I would love your opinions please on whether I am being unfair or judgmental. Me and my husband have been together for 15 years. Over the years I have caught him out in lies over money. About five years ago his aunt passed away, I knew she had left...

He is moving too fast, talking children, houses and marriage. He already has three kids.

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2877 days ago

29 December 2016 (F) - I need some advice I met this guy years ago down the pub via mutual friends he admitted he liked me never felt that same way. He then stopped speaking to me due to new gd etc and now has 3 kids with her who is now an ex September those yr he sees ...

He is clearly lying, but why does he keep doing this? I don't know why??

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2877 days ago

29 December 2016 (F) - I'm so confused!! I was friends with my ex for 3 years and seeing him the last year. The break up was bad as I accused him of seeing someone. He repeatedly denied it but he had lied to me a couple of times previously (just white lies he said...

Is AB more important to my Bf than he implies? I believe he loves me. But I only sharing him with AB?

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2883 days ago

29 December 2016 (F) - My boyfriend and I have been dating for 4 years and some change. When I left for college he became really close with a female friend( I'll call her AB). I do know her but I don't know her that well because we were never friends we just all kno...

Is it normal for a 69 year old man to have only one topic he wants to talk about, namely his 30 year old divorced daughter. Is it worth continuing this relationship?

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2662 days ago

29 December 2016 (F) - I am 54 years old and met a really nice man who is 15 years my senior. He is divorced and has two daughters one aged 34 and the other in her twenties. On our first date he made a toast to his eldest daughters success in getting a promotion. (i...

Can our relationship work? we have a baby on the way but the father of the baby has an addiction. Should I break up with him and move back with family?

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2878 days ago

28 December 2016 (F) - We have a baby on the way and he is addicted to marijuana. I had my own personal addiction to it myself but after realizing I was with child, I don't need it anymore. I want my child to have the extra money instead and to use it to benefit as a fam...

Mom told me I can't see my boyfriend. Should I take a taxi and go there?

This question has 9 answers - newest was posted 2884 days ago

28 December 2016 (F) - I want to go to my boyfriends house, but my mom told me I can't tomorrow! I looked at taxi services in my area and was wondering should I call a taxi and go to his house without my mom knowing and then come back home before she gets home?? ...

How can I help my autistic brother have a normal life?

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2884 days ago

28 December 2016 (F) - I would like some advice on what to do when you're autistic, aware of the way you differ from other 'normal' people, but still want to have a normal life that involves getting a job and a partner? I am asking on behalf of my brother because ...

I like men but sometimes I want to see what it would be like to have a relationship with a woman also.

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2878 days ago

27 December 2016 (F) - I like men alot but I want to see what it would be like to date a woman since I once had a fantasy of my fourth grade teacher years ago in my mind. She had ginger hai I also would look for red haired women in the Internet and would kiss their ...

Am I freaking out for no reason? He hasn't texted in 3 days!

This question has 12 answers - newest was posted 2881 days ago

27 December 2016 (F) - Hello, I'm a 22 year old single mother. I haven't dated much and it's been 2 years since my last serious relationship. I recently met a guy at the mall a few weeks ago. Well we have been texting the past couple weeks and then this past Wednesday w...

I am having difficulty with my girlfriend's son

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2885 days ago

27 December 2016 (M) - Hi guys, im 8 months into a relationship with my girlfriend and things are goin great with us, we have such a laugh when we are together, but im having a very hard time warming to her 12 year old son who lives with her, sometimes hes fine but most ...

If you are a parent or a carer of special needs child can you help advise me on any of my questions ? I am not asking for experts, just parents in a similar situation

This question has 13 answers - newest was posted 2878 days ago

27 December 2016 (F) - My severly disabled son has to go into residential care soon . We don't want this but he is very aggressive and they need to take him in to stabilise him because he is on too many medications and they think he will be better going to school and ...

I don't know how to handle the situation with this guy

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2879 days ago

26 December 2016 (F) - Hello, So I have been seeing someone for past couple of weeks and every time we are together things are fine. We have had intercourse, we're the same age. He has a son and so I understand he needs time to be with his son and I give him that sp...

How can I try to improve the way my mother communicates with me? Her egotistical ways are not helping.

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2885 days ago

25 December 2016 (F) - Hi all, My problem is about my mother, who has very poor communication skills, even in languages that she's really good at. It might be silly but creates big problems mainly because after not having communicated to us properly, she will turn ...

In a committed, passionate, loving relationship. Am I wrong for feeling 'put down' or like a 'one night stand'?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2879 days ago

25 December 2016 (M) - Here are the basics in order to fully understand my feelings about this situation: I am a 35 yr old male and she is 34. We have been in a committed relationship for a year now. We have a what we call "remarkable" relationship that truthfully ...

Was I right to call this woman a silly old trout over her cashmere jumper?

This question has 22 answers - newest was posted 2878 days ago

24 December 2016 (F) - Today me my husband and my severly disabled son when into a fish a chip shop restaurant. My son got hold of one of those small squeeezy packets of sauce, (he can grab at people and throw things so we always try to sit well away from people. )We were ...

Should I just move on? I don't want to be in the way of them remaking a family.

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2888 days ago

23 December 2016 (F) - I'm wondering if I'm being over sensitive to my boyfriend's need to "play family" with his ex and his children. Every week it seems, on his week's with the kids, she's over for some reason or another. He kept the house, she cheated on him a...

I've been feeling anxious and I don't know why. I don't know what to do, any suggestions?

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2881 days ago

23 December 2016 (F) - Recently this past few months I've been feeling really really sad and I don't know how to fix that?? I am an honours student in university, I have a great life at home, I am well off financially, and I kinda have everything...not to toot my own h...

How can I prevent my Aunty from showing me up in front of my boyfriend on Christmas Day? Title

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2882 days ago

20 December 2016 (F) - I've been with my partner for 6 years, and this will be the first time we are spending Christmas with my family. Though my boyfriend has met the rest of my family, this will be the first time he's meeting my aunty. She's actually a really nice pe...

Was it wrong to raise a glass at the graveside?

This question has 14 answers - newest was posted 2889 days ago

19 December 2016 (F) - I am involved in a bit if an argument. A mutual family friend passed away aged 49 from breast cancer. On her 50th birthday some of the family (not her family) and friends took some champagne and celebrated her birthday around her grave. The took ...

Do I make contact with his other child's mother?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

18 December 2016 (F) - Hi there I getting in contact because I don't knowwho else to ask.I am with a guy for less then a year we have a child a little boy whose a month old well anyway he got a daughter who is 5 yes old who he doesn't see because he said the mother Wouldn...

Is he a keeper? After all the white lies I'm starting to doubt my partner of 6 years.

This question has 9 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

18 December 2016 (F) - Hi there, thanks for looking :) - I'll try to keep this brief! I've been with my partner for 6 years, living together for 2. I'm 24 and he's 26, and we are usually very close. He's actually a super sweet guy - all my friends think so, and hes kind...

Four dates and now we're about to be away from each other for 20 days. How should I handle this extended break from her?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

18 December 2016 (M) - I've been on four dates with a girl I met on tinder over the last two weeks who is starting to really grow on me and I feel butterfly's in my stomach whenever we hang out together. I feel like we've taken things slow and that's super OK with me....

What shall I put on my ex- husband's headstone?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

18 December 2016 (F) - My ex- husband passed away two years ago, he was a doctor and I am going to order his headstone. I am not sure what to put on because we were divorced. I am re-married again. We remained good friends. He did not really have any family just two cous...

For the sake of my daughter, should I stay with a man who has just told me that "he wishes I was dead" ? l

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

18 December 2016 (F) - i dropped my fiance off at a work christmas party so he could drink if he wanted to and so he wouldnt have to worry about the snowstorm. he was going to call an uber at 11 so itd be there for sure by 12. that was the plan. i go home, fall asleep t...

My boyfriend can't control his intake of alcohol

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2866 days ago

17 December 2016 (F) - Ok so I have been seen this guys for almost 4 years now. On and off at first (we broke up 4 times and both went looking somewhere else. But would still kept in contact and talk about who we have been sleeping with, then have sex together. Unless one ...

Is it okay to schedule a family picture session during a friend’s wedding weekend? We are paying our own way!

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

16 December 2016 (F) - Sorry this question isn't really dating related...but I used to come here years ago before I got married and couldn't think of any other advice columns. I will keep it short. Wedding etiquette... we're going to be in Florida late winter for a fri...

Future with my in-laws looks looks set to wreck my forthcoming marriage

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2891 days ago

16 December 2016 (F) - hi.. is there anybody here living in their in-laws house after marry? who got controlling and self-minded mother in law? im going to marry next year. we are Asian and it's a tradition for us to live with in laws after marry especially if th...

Do I give him a chance to show he's not like that, once we have our own place, or leave?

This question has 11 answers - newest was posted 2894 days ago

15 December 2016 (F) - MOD NOTE: your update is emphatic that the name you chose for your account - KrisTaylor - is NOT your real name . .... . ..... . ...... . ....... Hello all, I've recently hit a rough patch with my new husband and need some advice. My hu...

Dogs versus the Christmas with family? I'm so angry right now, what do I do? I'm 32.

This question has 21 answers - newest was posted 2890 days ago

12 December 2016 (F) - I'm so annoyed right now. I've invited my parents to my house for Christmas but they've declined because I won't allow them to bring their dogs. They have 3 huge dogs and I don't want them in my house. I cannot believe they would rather sit alon...

I need advice on our relationship. It seems like what I do isnt good enough. What should I do?

This question has 3 answers - newest was posted 2896 days ago

12 December 2016 (M) - So i am in a relationship with someone i barely know we have been together for rather 3 months. I proposed to her one night while i was drunk and ive been going with it every sense. I've introduce her to family and some friends as my fiance and sh...

Does anyone have tips on how to be positive?

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2900 days ago

12 December 2016 (F) - I have been going to therapy for a while and the last couple of months it's been a sting of awful evens that have made I guess have a wake up call- from my doctors main issue is that I look at everything in a negative way- life love career - ...

My parents are threatening to cause me problems if I don't break up with my younger boyfriend

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2896 days ago

11 December 2016 (F) - I am a 23 year old single mother. I have just gotten out of a really bad reltionship with my child's father so the last thing I wanted to do was have any kind of relationship. I know that this sounds corney, but I litteraly fell into it. The pr...

Love-bombing. How long does it last? Will he replicate his love bombing actions in any future relationships ?

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2902 days ago

10 December 2016 (M) - How long does love-bombing by a narcissist last for? My dad is a narcissist (I believe) and he cheated and left my mother for a younger woman. I've heard that there are three stages of a relationship with a narcissist - 1. 'love-bombing', 2....

Feelings for my late husband's brother

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2902 days ago

9 December 2016 (F) - Hey, I am in a messy situation and not sure what to do at this point. I would like to make it less complicated, and I have no clue how to proceed. My husband passed away almost over a year ago from an accident. I was fortunate enough to be lov...

I'm worried my boyfriend would leave me if his mother told him to

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2898 days ago

8 December 2016 (F) - I've been dating A for 5 months now and things have been better than all my other past relationships luckily. I've been thinking a lot about our future, but one thing seems to get in the way, and that's his mother. He's Mexican and his family is ...

I'm concerned about his relationship with his sister-in-law! Why be secretive with texting each other when I'm not around and defensive if nothing happened?

This question has 8 answers - newest was posted 2904 days ago

6 December 2016 (F) - New to the site! My boyfriend and I have been dating for over a year and in June, bought a home together. He isn't very close to his family members(some past issues I suppose) but since I've been in his life, he's made a lot more effort to have f...

He is so shy .......

This question has 6 answers - newest was posted 2903 days ago

6 December 2016 (F) - I have known my boyfriend before we were a thing for about a year..he was shy at that time too..but now we are in a relationship and dates seem really awkward..I mean when he texts he's not shy but when in person he starts to blush and stays ...

How can I stop being addicted to love?

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2905 days ago

6 December 2016 (F) - How can one make love not so important? It seems that I'm always thinking about love (I'm single) and thirty 32 but ever since I can remember it's always been 90 percent of my life- I've lost jobs for men - I've gotten into arguments with my family ...

My relationship is really, really troubled!

This question has 5 answers - newest was posted 2903 days ago

5 December 2016 (M) - hey yesterday my partner started an argument about me spending £3 on a game i knew it was a pointless argument which is why walked away i stayed in another room away from her she was adamant she was right to shout at me for this and said she was not ...

My mother in law always sides with her son regardless of how badly he treats me

This question has 9 answers - newest was posted 2907 days ago

4 December 2016 (F) - I have recently had an argument with my mother in law my severely disabled son attacked me , he pulled my hair and my head back and forth several times, I now have terrible pains on my back and neck. I can cope with that but during the attack m...

Can I trust his cousin?

This question has 16 answers - newest was posted 2907 days ago

3 December 2016 (F) - So, I'm dating this guy who is a year younger than me. And it's a long distance relationship, where I've never seen him before although we video chat a lot. He is kind, caring and sweet. I sometimes communicate with his favorite cousin, who is older ...

Think I love mother and daughter

This question has 7 answers - newest was posted 2907 days ago

3 December 2016 (M) - I'm in a relationship with a woman 18 years older than me. Lately we have been growing apart, the age difference and different interests are the main reasons. Her daughter, is 4 years younger then me. I'm 35. Her daughter and I have a great ...

Is my mom's behavior normal? Is she being unfair?

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2909 days ago

2 December 2016 (F) - I graduated from college and started working 2.5 years ago. My sister did the same half a year ago. In case it’s relevant, we were born and raised in California to immigrant Asian parents. Amongst our culture and friends, it’s quite common to still ...

My mom ruined my last two birthdays and I'm dreading that she'll do the same this year

This question has 4 answers - newest was posted 2909 days ago

1 December 2016 (F) - Hello dearcupids, I am 25 yr single lady. Currently unemployed. My mother spoiled my birthday for last two years. I don't know why she did this, she even didn't wished me on my birthday. I cried always due to Her continuous mean behaviour. When ...

My boyfriend hasn't told his parents about our child

This question has 12 answers - newest was posted 2910 days ago

1 December 2016 (F) - Me and my boyfriend have been together for 4 yrs I hadn't met his parents till recently and I found he hasn't told them about our child whose almost 3yrs old...how am I suppose to deal or take that??...