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Dear Nina: I have been dating a guy for 4 1/2 months. He is 43 and I am 48. We hit it off immediately. I made the error of sleeping with him on our first date (I initiated it). He has never been married and has no children. He wants a non exclusive relationship to [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment February 3rd, 2009
I’ve recently ended a loving, healthy relationship (after three years of dating) due to my partner’s unwillingness to make a long-term commitment. This was someone I deeply loved who was right for me in many ways, and I am struggling to understand why this has happened and what I need to do to go forward. [...]
Continue Reading Add comment January 22nd, 2009
Dear Nina: I’ve been seeing this guy for about 18 months; I’m 36, he’s 35. When we first started out we never put a name to what we were doing. Everything was moving too fast for me in the beginning, so I slowed everything down. Now he wants to party and socialize, and says he doesn’t want [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments August 18th, 2008
Dear Nina: I’ve been dating a guy for about two years whom I love very much and am committed to. He has issues but mismanaged $ is the biggest in my view – he lives above his means and is in debt. I feel he resents me because I make twice as much money. He seems content with [...]
Continue Reading Add comment July 30th, 2008
Dear Nina: I have been living with a man for almost three years who I am in love with. I am 41 and he is 43. He has some real problems–he was brought up on fraud charges a few years back–though I know by my own research that he was innocent and was framed. Our relationship [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment July 28th, 2008
Dear Nina: My fiancé of five and a half years recently cheated on me and left me about five months before our marriage. Since then she has been with that guy. She refuses to give us a second chance. But at the same time she calls every day, wants to hang out as much as possible, says that I [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments July 14th, 2008
Dear Nina: It’s been three months since I broke up with my boyfriend of four years because he cheated. It still hurts like it happened yesterday and I can’t seem to get over the pain. I think about him everyday. I have read your book Temptations of the Single Girl and I learned so much about [...]
Continue Reading Add comment July 11th, 2008
This question was posted on Shine: Can friends with benefits develop into more? My friend will sit up with me and talk about his private family things and things he’s going through. Is that normal? I thought friends with benefits was hooking up, going home together, having some fun, and talk to you next time. I didn’t [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment July 8th, 2008
I’ve been asked this question countless times over the years: Can two people who were in love and break up then be friends? The answer is twofold: It depends, and maybe in time but usually not at first. To really get at this answer, we have to look at a definition of friendship. There are [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments June 29th, 2008
Dear Nina: My boyfriend and I have been dating for a little over 5 years now, I’m curently 20 and he is 22. We are truly happy together and never really had any serious problems in our relationship. I’m just finishing up RN school in December and I want to move out after that. I [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment June 27th, 2008
