I don't see how the romantic type of love is considered so special when most romantic couples end up breaking up or getting a divorce. Also most romantic couples tend to get into fights with each other a lot. I just don't see how the romantic type of love is considered as special as "platonic love" is, since most platonic friends remain friends until death, and they don't get into fights with each other that much. I'm actually starting to think that the romantic type of love doesn't exist, but I still think the platonic type of love still exists.

My insecure female friend is acting like we are going through pre wedding jitters, arguments She is acting like she does not know if she could trust me or not even though I have known her for 30 years Why is she like this

If you HAD to choose, who would you choose? someone you love to death but he treats you badly, doesn't take care of your feelings the way he should but does try. then on the other hand you have someone who loves you to death and treats you right, takes care of you, makes you laugh and smile but you dont love him but rather like. and why? doing a project on whether you should be with the person you love or the person who loves you the most and looking for opinions. Please real answers only this is a either or and why kinda question, not a neither lol

my 26 year old daughter is the only way that cooks in the house. I always eat the food but my 18 year old son and the wife never ever eats it. My son either orders a box of pizza or i'm paying $12-15 a plate for him some healthy food at a restaurant. He says he doesn't like what my daughter cooks and my wife doesn't want him eating pizza everyday. My wife always sticks her nose up at our daughter when she cooks and doesn't really like her being in the kitchen. she's had some type of resentment towards her every since we first birthed her it seems like but I can't seem to understand why. When our daughter was younger she even choked her one time. I think she might have bipolar disorder because in the same day she'll buy our daughter an outfit. I told my wife instead of sticking her nose up at our daughter every time she cooks why doesn't she get a cook book and learn but she refuses. I tried to tell her that cooking at home saves a lot of money. she doesn't care. She makes me buy her either burger king or red lobster there's no in-between with her. I tell my wife I cannot afford a $12 plate everyday so either he eats our daughter's food or she cooks him a meal, but she doesn't do either. Oh and my son will order pizza with his own money if i don't buy it, he's insanely obsessed with piza

a good 7-8 years ago i was working at a home improvement store with a lady who was in her 60's ( shocking i know ) I forgot how to conversation started but i asked her about her marriage and she mentioned the key to marriage is compromise and sparing each-others feelings. I asked her about the sparing each-others feelings part and she said When i find the one that i know would do anything for me and we get married. Years in i decide to cheat one night but with the intention for it to be just that but stay with my wife/husband and from their perspective we are happy would i really choose to hurt their feelings by bringing it up knowing they wouldnt leave? She goes on to say that she loves her husband and if he decided to cheat one day she would rather not know about it because it would tear her down and from her perspective shes in a happy marriage. i dont want to sound like a wuss being a guy but im getting married soon and... it kind of haunts me till now. Is this accurate?

me and him been together for 7 years married for 2 years and well his mom hates me so much! i can't even call her mother in law because she won't even consider me her daughter in law. people would ask her and she'll say i'm not her DIL! idk if she hates me because of my husbands brothers wife made up a bunch of lies about me to make me look like a really evil person. his mom used to be somewhat nice before but now she is being rude. she never says hi, never starts a convo with me, never even offers me food either when i'm over at her house only to the other people that are invited, never asks me for opinions on things she'll ask her "daughter in law" and now she's acting different with my husband too! i honestly haven't done anything for her to be that way!

We are both on our 40's got married back in February she has 2 kids and I have a little girl, we are having sex maybe once per week, do you find that average normal? thank you

Friend is having marital problems. I found out from a different friend that her husband is having an affair. There is no doubt that he in in fact having the affair. Should I tell her? On the one hand I don't feel like its really any of my business but on the other hand I think he is possibly using her for her money (she makes more than him). A divorce seems certain, according to her, though maybe not for years (kids involved). He is apparently also using their money (which is mostly her money) to take the other woman out on dates and things and I feel like at least she shouldn't give him access to her money anymore but I really don't want to have to tell her this.

Hello everyone, This is very hard for me to talk about but I need some solid advice. Here goes. Last year I met this guy, initially I asked him if he was married and he told me NO. About 9 weeks ago I found out I was pregnant with my first child. I am 35 and thought it would never happen and i m happy about it. When I told him I was pregnant he told me a few weeks after he was married and his wife is also pregnant. I am very upset naturally and he says he wants nothing to do with me. I am very angry and would like to send a letter to his wife letting her know what s going on. Am I wrong for sending her a letter? What exactly should I do in my situation because I am very very angry and don t feel he should just get away with this.

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So my partner got himself into a situation where he had a heat of a moment so he calls it. So he was seeing someone he knew. Just texting her as a friend and then he started to go round to hers when we argued. He came home and told me there was a heat of the moment where she came onto him. She kissed him pulled down his trousers and pushed him down. Got on top and inserted him into her, he pushed her straight off and left. He told her she was wrong and that he was married. They've had no contact since. I've been with him for many years and am pregnant with his baby and am undecided what to do. He won't let me divorce him or leave. Is there really such a thing as second chances in these situations. The more I try to get away the more he fights me. I honestly don't know how to get past this. It's not the fact it happened it's the fact he got himself into this situation. It's hard to look at him knowing what is mine has been else where! Kind comments please. Emotional, hormonal and confused pregnant women here 😂 The friend knows he was married and that she was pregnant. He was just seeing her as a friend. Not having an affair incase my post wasn't clear.

I'm 37 y/o. I like to swim 5 days per week. So, I moved to this upper-class apartment building with a pool in the 9th floor. The apartments in this building are deisgned for families. They all have a big bedroom, 2 small rooms for kids, a living room, laundry room, and kitchen. YET, there's hardly any families living here. The building is almost entirely used by single men like me. Most men here are sharing their apartment with other single-working-men. I live in one of the small rooms which was probably designed to be a kids room. The pool looks as if it were an all-male pool since there's just men here. The gym also looks like an all-male gym. There are few families. There's no single females living here, maybe it's because the rent is so high (I don't know.) This building was obviously designed for families. But it is full of men in their late 20s and 30s. Men who in any other time would be married by now. What does my apartment building say about the marriage situation in America?

I've been with my husband for 10 years. We have 2 kids and got married very young-I was only 20 and he was 21. About 5 years into the relationship, my husband cheated on me with my best friend for a year. He ended up stopping on his own and then telling me 2 years after the fact. Last year I was struggling with the fact that he worked for 100 hours every week for an entire year. It felt like we weren't married anymore. I ended up having an affair that lasted a few months. My husband knows about it and overall was forgiving because he had done the same. The problem though is this: he didn't have feelings for my friend that he cheated with, but I developed feelings for the one I had an affair with. It's been a few months since the affair ended, but I haven't gone a single day without thinking about him, and I feel like I just don't have the same connection with my husband anymore. I love him and don't want to leave him, but I also cannot get this other person off my mind and still wonder what would happen if I started another life with him. My husband knows I had feelings for this guy and he knows I still struggle, but not to the extent. Will it just go away in time or will it always be there? I've developed anxiety through this situation and other things, have been going to personal therapy, and even marriage counseling. I don't want to prolong healing by telling my husband that I'm still struggling, but at the same time it's hard to carry this weight.

I try not to get in the middle and i try not to scream and yell because someone has got to be the peace in the family but i remember when our daughter was younger she would mentally and physically abuse our daughter. Ya'll think i'm controlling, well you haven't met my wife. She tries to control my daughter and ME, her adult husband! If things aren't done her way she has a fit. Our daughter traveled with her boyfriend a couple summers ago when she was 23 and my wife completely lost her mind and I thought we were going to have to take her to the hospital for having a panic attack. She punished our daughter for spending the night with her boyfriend un-married when they returned. I feel bad for my daughter because I believe all of our children should be treated equally and she used to be extremely lenient with our 21 year old son letting him fly all over the world with his 20 year old girlfriend. I feel like neither of them should be shacking up but my wife is set on my daughter for whatever reason. I wish they would come to amends because life is too short to have so much hatred for one another and if one of them was to drop dead tommorow it wouldn't be pretty. Ever since my daughter has been cooking there's been a lot more tension between them as well. MY wife doesn't know how to cook and refuses to cook but I notice she hates to see our daughter cook and she gets short tempered when our daughter is in the kitchen. She said yesterday " I'm throwing all this $h!t in the trash if it's not cleaned off my counter by the time i get out the bath" And i told my wife that my daughter assured us it would be clean and to calm down. it worries me how angry she can flip her switch over minor stuf she's still living with us because she can't afford an apartment making a little less than $1000 a month on top of all the student loans she owes. She told me she would rather deal with my wife's abuse then be homeless. I just want all of our children to be treated equally. My daughter asked me if she could go on vacation with her boyfriend for a few days and i told she could because i trust her but when my wife found out she left with that man she used my phone and called our daughter so many times you wouldve thought the phone wouldve burned out. She even used my son's phone to call her and she contacted my sister in law. She called our daughter screaming at her to come back home I had to calm my wife down because she just was so angry and going crazy. I called my daughter and told her that her mother was going crazy and that she needs to be careful when she comes back home. My daughter said she was scared to come back home and was crying on the phone and said " why is mom acting like this" And I was like " I don't know". . She gets onto our sons too but not nearly as much as she gets onto our daughter and I DO NOT like that. She got onto our son about forgetting her birthday gift ( he lives in his own house now) but other than that they have a pretty good relationship. her birthday was over a month ago and my wife is still hangering about her late gift. My son doesn't like spending a lot of time over here now I see. When we went on a family vacation to disney world last summer we couldn't even have peace then! My wife was hankering our daughter and everybody was stressed for half of the vacation.

I only plan on getting married once in life, however I know that you never know what the future holds and anything can happen. I am 32 years old, just bought my first house and I am engaged to be married to by boyfriend of 3 and 1/2 years. I do not have children and I do not desire to have them before marriage. Only in marriage will having children make me happy. However, most people tell me I need to hurry up and have kids. They don't feel I should be married first. Their opinion doesn't matter to my life choices but I'm tired of feeling preasured. I dont want to have multiple baby daddies and multiple marriages like the people who didnt wait for marriage to have children do. I feel like they want me to ruin my life just because they ruined theirs. I'm not trying to be mean but having a bunch of children and no husband is not ideal for me. That's not how I plan to start my family. What is wrong with waiting for marriage to have children?

My wife is very beautiful and a wonderful, lovely, loving person. At the beginning of our marriage the thought of her would always turn me on. Now, not really. I feel like I'm going crazy. She is very attractive, but my sexual organs don't really get turned on at the thought of her. Other women, even ones I don't really find attractive, do turn me on more. What can I do about this? I love my wife dearly and I only want her to turn me on. Extra info: I am Christian and am completely devoted to my wife. Maybe my brain got messed up as a child because I think of sex as sort of a "naughty" thing and having sex with my wife doesn't seem naughty

You are the mother of the bride. You are independent, very intelligent, don't reveal your true feelings type, passionate,intense, jealous, competitive You are not purposely not standing next to your daughter, the bride to be, when taking group family photo with the new in laws The only photo that came out is you not standing next to your daughter and you looking more attractive than everybody else in the photo which includes daughter, fiancé, fiancé parents What makes a mother do this

Ordered ny the judge but I can t afford to get them done at 3500.00 in my nevada custody case. What happens if I don't do it

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wife says if she can't stay in our house as a 26 year old working mininum wage. her job now pays a little under$1,000. she said she is working on getting a better paying job so she can move out. She said if she and boyfriend were to move in together she could afford to move out faster but she knows me and my wife don't approve of shacking up before marriage so we wouldn't allow her to do that. that's not going to fly with us.

Some of my friends that married and also have kids are having marriage troubles and also parenting troubles. But they ask me for advice, when the truth is I don't have any kids, and I've never even been in a relationship. I'm not afraid of commitment, I'm just a nerd. I still have trouble getting dates. But my friends keep asking me for advice. The only advice I can give them is to go to marriage counseling or parent counseling, But they don't even want that, some can't afford it and some think it's too humiliating. So why are they coming to me for answers?