GETTING SERIOUS ADVICE

Relationships are typically dynamic (ever changing) or static (not moving). Every so often, couples should take stock and ask themselves if they are happy with the direction their relationship is headed. When both partners are willing to invest time on a long-term basis, it's officially become serious.

Getting Serious: Long-Distance Love

Is This Love? • Is It Meant to Be? • Long-Distance Love • Age Differences • Moving In Together • Interracial & Interfaith • Having 'The Talk' • Romance Tips • Arguments/Fights • Money Issues • Not Quite Engaged • Meeting the Parents • Lifestyle Differences • The Last Straw • Health Issues • Meeting Halfway • The One • On The Rocks • Temptation • PDAs • Career Differences • Quality Time •

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In a long distance relationship - should I take the risk with the new guy?
In a 3 year long distance relationship and my boyfriend would be gone for 3 more years. I'm starting to have a feelings for friend. We hang out every ...read more (0 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

lost
my boyfriend and I live an hour apart, we have for the majority of our relationship..i have the opportunity to move closer to him and live with my cou...read more (0 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

Met a girl i think she likes me although im not sure
Well Hello, So I'm 15 and like 3 months ago I've met the girl i really like. And since that time we've been together on 2 parties and hang out all in...read more (0 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

What makes a casual relationship turn serious?
When does dating turn into a long term (more serious) relationship? Is time the key, is complementary life goals the key, or is it just that loving fe...read more (1 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

How do I convince my family that this guy is The One?
I have been dating a guy for the past 6 years and my family does not think he is the one for me. It was one of those situations where I met him at 17 ...read more (1 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

My messy GF thinks she's a neat freak... should I clue her in?
My new girlfriend shared with me that she was a neat freak after I shared the same with her. For the second time, I went to her house for an unexpecte...read more (2 answers)
ExpertCoach posted in Getting Serious

Follow my career dreams or,,, my high school sweetheart?
I am 18 years old and my boyfriend and I have been a couple since the beginning of high school. Now, he is going to the University of California for ...read more (5 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

Can we have a worthwhile relationship but avoid talking about what is important us?
My girlfriend and I agree on almost nothing. In fact, the lone thing that we do have in common is that we both like each other, and enjoy being in th...read more (2 answers)
JohnW posted in Getting Serious

In person he's great, away from me he's distant. How can I save this?
I met a guy online. The first two months of our relationship were great. He initiated, made an effort to come see me, and invited me out with him. ...read more (1 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

I think my new BF might try to bite me! What do I do?
I've been dating this guy for a couple months now and he's really great but he's always shied away when I try to ask about his religious beliefs. Fin...read more (1 answers)
NJoseph posted in Getting Serious

I can't tell if he's serious about me or not! Can you?
Hi. I have been seeing this guy for about two years. We have never discussed where it's going or if we're exclusive. Whenever I allude to "us", he cha...read more (1 answers)
mastergemini posted in Getting Serious

Is he promising a Karat or dangling a carrot?
I have been dating my boyfriend for about a year now, and we have talked about marriage since very early on in the relationship. We seemed to be so c...read more (1 answers)
jenaric posted in Getting Serious

Trying to Force Love
Can over-analyzing "us" with a new partner become a self-defeating pursuit? I recently dated a guy for two months and became exhausted by the pressure...read more (1 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

How do I know I'm making the right decision by staying with him?
I have been with my guy for three years, but we haven't been in the most solid of relationships. We've both cheated; I even had another relationship, ...read more (1 answers)
anonymous posted in Getting Serious

Straight Boyfriend with Gay Friends
I am a heterosexual girl in love with a presumably heterosexual man. However the strange thing is that just about all of his male friends are gay. I w...read more (1 answers)
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