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So, I have been going back and forth in my head for almost 2 months about this. I have built this up to be quite scary.. and it kinda was.. But I did it. ( Giving myself a slight pat on the back for my bravery..go me! ) But I am still feeling a lot of emotions. Back story: Two men ( me 41 and him 39 ). Started dating in February of this year. He had just had his newborn baby girl born via surrogacy, 2 months prior. I had come back to Canada because of the pandemic, after living in Asia for 5 years. I never intended to stay in Canada permanently, but got stuck here due to Covid. And then we met... In the beginning it was like one big happy family. …

So he kept saying I’m going to marry you one day. Then last night he says I didn’t mean really marry you just that is to show you I’m really committed. Mentions that why would we get married at this age 50 again. Holy mixed up now

I've been with my girlfriend for almost 3 years now. We have an amazing connection, have lots of fun, talk, are best friends, and just love each other very much. She told me on our 2nd date that she was diagnosed Bipolar 1, and had episodes in her past (about 3) and doing ECT. After about 8 months, she stopped the ECT and went off her meds. She still saw a therapist and her psychiatrist regularly. Things were still going well, she's naturally extroverted and very outgoing so sometimes it's harder to make the distinction of when her mood is elevated. About a month ago, while I was out of town, she had an episode and was hospitalized for 4 days. Since then, I'm real…

Hi Everyone, I am a 30 year old guy, in a relationship with a girl the same age as me. We have been together for 3 years now. Everything is great and we are currently looking at buying a house together. I'm worried that we have differing opinions about marriage. I have never wanted to get married. I have always made this clear. She has always been kind of wishy-washy about it and I didn't think it was a big deal, until a couple of times recently that she has made comments about wanting to get married. I've explained to her that I don't really understand the concept of a marriage. IMO, I don't see the point in spending tens of thousands on a wedding …

What do you do if your messages have been consistently seen zoned? I stopped sending message to this a certain guy and act chill even though he is ignoring me. I stopped for self-respect. I even uninstalled my Messenger. But honestly, it hurts inside. I have been crying only for this. Am I being childish ? I tried to keep myself per-occupied at work to move on but it really hurts. I don’t know why I feel fragile lately. Sorry, I really feel sad and I don’t feel opening up this to my friends and family. They are always busy. I want to move on. I believe that I have not done something wrong. Perhaps, it’s definitely better to distance myself from hi…

I met this guy playing beer pong at a college party 2 years ago. We immediately hit it off and he came home with me that night. Over the next few weeks we continued to hook up and I caught MAJOR feelings. Everything seemed to be there with him- looks, sense of humor, intelligence, shared interests, very similar career goals, religion, politics, etc. So I asked him out on a real date but he said he wasn't looking for a relationship at the time. Fast forward 2 years later: I've graduated college and he's still in school. We've been DMing each other on twitter every now and again. He tells me all the time how much he loves my tweets. We recently hung out in my college town a…

She is about 20-21 y/o. I am 27 y/o. she is now single. Basically, I tried to contact my neighbours grand-daughter through her Instagram account (I wanted to wait until she came over, but she is never there). Tbh I thought *** it, why not? I sent a DM (with my intentions) with a follow request and she declined the request (though I later came to find out she was in a relationship, when she declined). Not long after sending the DM her presence around my neighbours has increased a lot over the past 6 months. My neighbours house is attached to mine, so we are like toe-toe. About 1 month after sending the DM she has been out on the neighbours drive standing alone…

Hello ENA people, I feel the need to ask this here because I'm sure some of you can help me figure out this minor problem. Our dog is a small breed, some kind of terrier mix, he is adorable and very very sweet - good with all our kids, thinks our baby is his baby. I thought a smaller dog would have more anxiety with kids, but it doesn't seem to be that bad. Sometimes he does shake when around our daughter, but I think it's because they've had bad experiences as per below: I seem to suck at training him not to jump on the couch too fast. I want him to be able to sit there with all of us, but I don't allow him to anymore because he can't seem to slow dow…

So my girlfriend of about 1.5 years (37yo and I'm 35) was supposed to move in at the end of the month, but she started acting a bit distant around conversations about it. I asked her if she wasn't planning to move in anymore and she said "I'm thinking about it." When I asked why she said "I don't know really" and was really dismissive like it wasn't a big deal (this is only two weeks before I was expecting her). So I let it rest for 24 hours and brought it up the next day letting her know how I felt about it and she didn't understand why I would be upset and I said "because it kind of feels like you're tying up loose ends." She went off about "I feel like we're jus…

Hello everyone, I'm looking for some advice as I've never encountered this situation so I'm unsure what to think of it. I met a guy and we have gone out a few times. On the second date we shared our first kiss and he immediately proceeded to appreciate my butt. By I appreciate I mean not only giving me compliments on how good it looks but also touching it. He even put his hand down my pants to caress it. On our third date while I was putting something in the car he immediately proceeded to stand behind me so that his member was touching my butt. He didn't do anything else other than stand behind me so that he could feel my butt touching him. It just feels weird when …

So, I decided I’d come on here and just get some advice on how to deal with my gfs mood swings. Most of the time I can deal with her and I just give her space for a couple days, her mood swings vary month by month, example last month she was okay and still the same bubbly personality great! But this month she completely different, dosent want to talk at all, I told her if someone was up she could talk to me.. she didn’t want to which is fine by me. I just want some advice or just some confirmation I’m doing the right thing? I know us men don’t fully grasp women’s mood swings and struggle to know why they even happen. Any comments are appreciated.

My husband and I have been together about 12 years (married two). We began dating at 19 and were each other’s first. For the first two years we were long distance. Sometime at the end of the first year of dating I made the mistake of kissing another guy when I was drunk at a party one night. I told my partner right away and he understood. He was very compassionate and forgiving. He said things happen and to be more careful. A little over a year later we moved in together. Things were pretty amazing for the first two years living together (year 3 and 4 dating). He was generally communicative and, though we had a few arguments here and there, there were no “red flags.” Then…

I had been dating a guy (let's call him ex date) for 2 months, I stopped having feelings & sexual attraction for him so I broke it off, but we were still good friends. Shortly after that I started developing a romantic connection with an online friend (over text) and we were planning to meet. I told him that I wouldn't sleep with anyone until we met, which would be in less than a month. Two weeks after the break with ex date, and a day after I made that promise, I got extremely drunk at a small get together my roommate had. One of the guests was sending live and my ex date viewed it, he saw and heard that I was drunk off my face, that I walked in to a wall etc. a…

So I got a text out of the blue last week from a girl I had flirted with at this party 3 weeks ago. After 2-3 exchanges I set a date and we went out last Wednesday. Thought it went quite well, good laugh, good conversations, banter, etc... and then 30 mins when I got home I got a text from her thanking me for the great evening and hoping I enjoyed it too. Honestly, nothing made it seem she would fall off the face of the world. A couple days or so later (yesterday) I sent her a text asking when she was likely to be free next week... no answer. I haven't sent anything else. I guess I completely misundertood this.

I have been casually talking to/seeing this guy for a couple months. We used to work together a few years ago and reconnected when we both moved to a new city around the same time. He had a game night with a few friends recently and also invited his ex. Throughout the night, he would call her by a nickname and occasionally bring up old inside jokes. Apparently, she is from the area, and he got back in touch with her when he moved. They've even hung out one on one a few times. I know people can be friends with exes, but it rubs me the wrong way because he tries so hard to be friends with her in particular. He sent her a friend request a year after they broke up, …

Hey all. In March 2020 a relationship I was in ended. It rocked me so bad I took counseling, medication and regularly called support groups etc. Eventually I got into another relationship which unfortunately ended after 6 months. Since then I've dated one other person. I know I've always still held feelings for this ex but since we have had no contact since we split it's kind of become easier as time moves on. I hadn't even seen her around town or anything since we split and then 2 weeks ago she walked past (she didnt happen to see me through pure luck) Then earlier this week I saw her on a dating site, still looking as stunning as I think she is. Loo…

I'm 24f, boyfriend's 29m. We've been talking romantically and been exclusive for a whole year, but since we're long-distance we didn't make things official until last month. Two days into talking we said we liked each other and we say I like you to each other basically every single day since then. Our relationship has been romantic from the very beginning and we just went on vacation together for 2 weeks, where we finally became official and during which I expected him to say the three words. He didn't and he hasn't yet, and it's starting to really hurt. I met his family and friends, he's meeting my family in August, and we're planning everything for my move to him …

A little background: during the whole pandemic I ended up meeting someone through a bunch of church zoom calls last year that I got to know through text and phone calls. I'll finally get to meet her in person soon at a church convention and I am not sure how to approach the situation. I really like her and I want to get to know her on a higher level. I know we haven't met in person yet so it may be a little premature but I want to let her know that my intention to meeting her is to see if there is mutual interest. I tried testing the waters by messaging her that I was looking forward to finally meeting her and she replied by saying that she's looking forward to seeing…

My boyfriend and I broke up 9 days ago after a 3 year relationship, on his terms. Initially, I was devastated but since blocking him on all social media I have felt a bit better which makes me wonder whether him ending the relationship was actually what I knew was right deep down too. However, I keep worrying about him talking to or seeing someone new. We were in a relationship previously for 2 years when we were 16, he broke up with me when we were 18 and started seeing another girl a week after so I worry he will do the same now. I was heartbroken. A year after her, he came back to me. I was stupid enough to take him back but we had a good +3 years together. I …

Hi everyone, Two months ago I met this guy on tinder, and we hit it off really well. I am working abroad for the season and he lives here. We both still had some issues, I was still in love with a guy that rejected me and he was still not over his ex that dumped him overnight 1,5 year ago. So we decided to keep it casual. These two months have been wonderful. I spend all my free time with him and also went on a few trips together through the country. If we hadn't met under these circumstances I would have definitely fallen in love with him. This week he sends me a text saying that he doesn't want to sleep together anymore and wants to go back to being pla…

I posted a few weeks ago about the issues i was having with my boyfriend about communication and him going 17+ hours at a time without responding to messages which was something he wasn’t doing at the beginning of the relationship. We managed to resolve this issue of non communication for the past 3 weeks. Fast forward to this week, he started doing the same thing except it was worse , it started on Saturday where i would call and text and he would literally not call back and the texts were being responded to every 24 hours. I know he has been stressed with work and other things, but I felt like I should be someone he leaned on and not someone he ignored especially after …

Hello I know It's been a long time until I have locked in, it's been two years. I really try to fight my own battles & I never stopped growing ever since those two years. As a matter of fact, I haven't stopped my personal growth ever since 2015 where I started my Bachelors in Sports Science. I never took a single break ever since 2016 up until now 2021. I have finished my Bachelors in the exact time, only for coronavirus to cancel all my plans ( I know I'm not alone on this one). But I was working multiple angles at the same time when I was in university. Doing martial arts & also doing my sports science degree, only to find out that I wouldn't land a de…

Hello everyone and thank you for visiting this topic. My family is facing some problems right now related to my father behavior. Currently I am 24 years old and I am working remotely from home, living with my father and my mother. My older sister is married and my middle brother works abroad and I am the little son. The problem I am going to talk about does not involve bullying or anything of that kind, it's just something that is becoming annoying and I wish I could find a solution. My father is a retired man, taking good care of all of us. He has a little brother, who is the CEO of the company where my brother is employed. Of course he got him this job and it'…

I (16F) am about to be a junior in high school, and I have liked this boy (16M) who sat next to me in my math class (and was on the track team with me) since the start of last year. I soon became a pretty big crush. He knew that I liked him because my sister's boyfriend told him. I eventually formed a connection with him, and we waved at the start of math class and talked as well. He was really sweet and of course that made me like him even more. Then, he suddenly and indirectly mentioned his girlfriend to me. This was right after an exchange we had through Instagram DMs that lasted a week, so it's likely he mentioned this on purpose to indirectly tell me he was take…

I have been in a relationship for 9 years and my partner went to our family holiday home at the weekend with a mate to put insulation under the floor. I stayed at home as it was bloke stuff but I saw that my partner was messaging a woman asking when they were coming. He also asked for another woman’s phone number so his mate could ring this woman’s friend. There was really bad weather in the region which became a civil emergency and the roads to the holiday home had slips and were closed so the woman said they couldn’t get there. My partner suggested they hire a boat or row there, now that part is funny, in the pouring rain at night! I challenged my partner and …