Questions tagged [romance]
For questions involving a romantic relationship, whether it is a current, previous or hoped for relationship or involving the romantic relationship of another couple.
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How to encourage girlfriend to apologize more?
My girlfriend and I have been together for a bit more than 2 years now. At this point, our relationship is stable and we feel good about each other's company. However, there's one thing that really ...
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How can I tell a coworker about my feelings for her without damaging our working relationship?
A coworker and close friend of mine is in a serious relationship; one day she may well marry her current boyfriend. Even so, I’ve had strong romantic feelings for her for approximately a year. I’ve ...
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Meeting after a breakup - how to explain I now understand the problems we had?
A little backstory:
I am a 25 year old man. About 3 years ago I started dating a woman and we lived happily. Some points it seemed too perfect. I mean we never argued. Maybe this caused the breakup.
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How can I assist my girlfriend to be independent and career minded
I am currently dating my girlfriend who is originally from Eastern Europe. She has many personality qualities that I admire such as reliable, honest , and emphaphetic / caring. I really enjoy spending ...
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How to mend a friendship when someone thought I was joking about having a girlfriend?
So I was recently chatting to someone who I had not seen for sometime and wanted to encourage them to return to a club that I had often seen them at previously. I went out for coffee with them once, ...
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What should I take into consideration when resuming conversations online after an extended lack of contact?
I've been exchanging messages online with someone of the opposite gender for an extended time now. We live in different countries.
I think we get along fairly well, and there have been situations ...
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How to quickly end a date?
I use a dating app to go on dates with people I have never seen in person. Usually we spend 1-2 hours to go for some coffee etc.
I've had dates turn up that e.g. don't look like their picture/...
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How can I warn my friend about getting into a relationship with someone I deeply distrust?
This time last year, my best friend of around 10 years (B) started dating a new coworker (C) of ours. From an outside perspective, the relationship seemed somewhat broken --- My friend B was really ...
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How do I deal with my boyfriends parents who hate me? [closed]
For a backstory, my boyfriend just recently graduated and moved to college, because he already had a rocky relationship with his parents. He was on the edge of getting kicked out of his house several ...
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1answer
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Possible Girlfriend in the ICU [closed]
Long story ahead, you've been warned. Could really use sound advice here.
Some background first, I'm terrible at reading social cues, to the point when I was younger medicos told my parents I might ...
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How can I talk about loneliness without sounding like I'm indulging in self-pity?
I'm a 27-year-old man.
I feel like a lot of the baggage I am carrying stems from moving around a lot and not really being able to find communities where I belong, as well as being pretty unpopular ...
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My girlfriend occasionally blocks me on social media
We have known each other for almost a year, and have been dating for more than 6 months. Most of the time it has been going really well; we like each other and enjoy each other's company. For most of ...
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How to manage healthy relationship with traditional parents who do not like your partner?
I am from India, living in Germany for a long time now. I have liberal views, and most of my ideas align with the political left, here, in Europe. My parents, though, are from a traditional Indian ...
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How to tell a girl with anxiety and OCD I'd like to date her without triggering her?
Background:
I'm a college student currently at home on summer vacation. A few weeks before I left school, I was approached by a girl who knew me through a mutual friend. She suggested we hang out and ...
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Declining a date invitation from a friend while minimizing the hurt feelings?
When I was in middle school (around 14 years old), I was friends with a boy (who was outside of my regular "friend group") and so, some friends of mine decided to hook me up with this person....
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How do I tell my girlfriend she's been buying me books by the wrong author for the last nine months?
Help! For the last nine months my girlfriend has been buying me books by the wrong author, fully believing that she's treating me to work by my favourite writer (who incidentally she believes is a ...
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Having a conversation with a coworker about receiving mixed signals that are confusing me
CONTEXT:
I live in France, am 23 and I have had a crush on a coworker (21) for about 6 months and told her so around 1 month and a half ago in no uncertain terms. We had been talking regularly, about ...
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how do I tell my friend how I feel in person without feeling embarrassed about it? [closed]
Context
So I've been talking to this guy for nearly two years now and we both know we really like each other. When we first started talking, he told me that he liked me but I wasn't able to commit to ...
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How should I text a guy I liked on LinkedIn?
I have been co-workers with this guy for a little bit over a year but didn’t get to see him often except when we both showed up at company parties.
He seemed to be interested in me. First approached ...
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How to talk with a girl about the fact that she keeps standing me up?
I'm interested in a girl in my circle of friends. We know each other as friends, but I decided to try a bit harder to see how far I can go.
The first thing I did was talked with her the whole night ...
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How can I ask this girl out when she's giving me mixed signals (and other various obstacles)? [closed]
I'm going to try to make this short, but there's quite a bit of stuff to explain.
Background information:
Me: Male, 17, Junior
Her: Female, 17 (assumed), Junior
Situation:
So, this girl moved ...
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How do I tell my gf to stop guilting me that I don't love her enough?
My gf and I have been together for several months and recently moved in with each other. To clarify, she moved into my apartment. I have a high paying job, in fact I make quite a bit more than her, ...
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How to invite a girl to talk and hang out without her inviting a friend?
I like her, she works in the office with me, and we've known each other for a month. I had already been hanging out with her and some friends. We have confidence, but I have not exposed my romantic ...
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Sit opposite or along-side on a 4-seater table on a date? [closed]
Sometimes I'll be seated at a 4 person table when I visit a restaurant with one other person. When on a first romantic date with someone, what is the etiquette as to whether I should sit beside them ...
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What would be the correct reaction in such situation? [closed]
First need to tell that I am an Arab muslim and I live and have a fiance in a European country. We've been dating for about 3 months. We have a really good romantic relationship, no conflicts have ...
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How to avoid being kissed by someone with braces?
Situation
I have recently found myself in a position where someone I am attracted to has tried to kiss me. The only problem I really have with this— their braces.
I quickly brushed them off before ...
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How to make a friend I secretly love feel special on Valentine’s Day
I’m thinking about mailing flowers and perhaps some tasty snacks— anonymously of course.
This friend is often uncomfortable with romantic situations, particularly ones where reciprocity is of ...
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How do I effectively talk to my lover about her relationship?
Background
Since probably 6 months ago, I've been dating with a girl (let's call her Emilia) who has BF, (we are in our mid twenties, both from USA) and she told that me since the beginning and I ...
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How can I ask my flatmate why she's upset after I mentioned feeling like a third wheel?
A few days ago my flatmate [22, F] and me [26, M] went to a party. She was asking me which of two guys she should hook up with. It was more jokingly, at least I thought and she also told me it's just ...
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How to finish a date gracefully?
I'm totally clueless in this type of situations.
You meet someone for what is implied a date. After talking to him for an hour or two, you discover you really don't have much in common. Nothing ...
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How to tell my violin teacher who's interested in me that I'm actually married after I sent positive signals back for months? [closed]
I'm a 30 year old male and I've been married for 10 years. I work in an all-male environment. I don't have female friends. I have no male-female relationship experience outside of my marriage. In ...
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How to tell a coworker that you would like to date them?
I think I'm in an intricate and precarious May-June/May-July situation.
A woman colleague, let's call her Mary, seems to have a crush on me.
She has:
clung to my arm while walking,
tried to coyly ...
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2answers
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How to avoid an argument over the phone with my girlfriend
Context
I've been dating my girlfriend for the last year, but we became officially a couple 3 months ago, I'm 28 and she is 21. We do not live together and we see each other usually twice a week.
The ...
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How to explain to my girlfriend that I enjoy certain video games?
I would like to ask for advice about my current situation, my girlfriend (26) and I (31) have been together for 2 months now and we really have lots in common and always have a great time together but!...
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How to reduce the awkwardness on the way to the bedroom?
I am a man in my mid-40's and met some time ago an old friend (woman, mid-40's as well) when travelling (to her city). I traveled there again a few times (every few months) and it is obvious that a (...
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How to ask someone you see regularly out on a date, without making it awkward?
Here's the situation:
There's this girl, let's call her Jane, that I've known for slightly over a year.
We met pretty randomly when we were both looking for a dance partner for ballroom dancing, and ...
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How should I apologise for making someone feel bad for something that wasn't their fault? [closed]
I recently met a girl on a night out when we were both quite drunk, and, having liked her I began texting her every now and then. After a few days, we decided to go out for some coffee.
Now, when we ...
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How to re-build intimacy with romantic partner
Me and my wife have been married for almost 5 years and together for 7. We are both relatively young, she is still in her twenties.
The past year or so, I have not acknowledged her very much. I have ...
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Asking someone you met on a dating site to be friend, because you didn't like them enough to date
So I met a girl on a dating site. We were talking a bit for few days. But last Saturday, both of us were feeling down, so we decided to meet for a walk on our first date, and later we went to my place,...
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Approach former date online without making it awkward
So there's this girl I was dating back in may I matched on Tinder. I was over that pretty quickly and I still don't have any romantic interest in her. At the time we were dating (and I'd bet long ...
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I look ten years younger. Is it appropriate to give a younger age in online dating? [closed]
People don't age at the same speed. The variance for age of (non-violent, natural) death is several decades. And you can notice this difference in the speed of aging at an earlier age, too. Some ...
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Finding out if my crush is gay
I am a middle aged man living in western Europe. I have a crush on a female colleague who recently joined the company where I am working, but in a different department from me.
Today by random chance ...
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How to tell my wife about a (possibly romantic) relationship with another woman?
I am happily married male, mid-thirties, Central Europe, two nice kids. With my wife, we have a great relationship and no big issues, just the normal ones (if she only didn't burn the meal that often :...
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How to ask my boyfriend's family if it bothers them that I'm coming along
I am in a romantic relationship with a very close friend of mine (we are both French and in the early 20s). We have been very close for years and we have been living together for a few months now. We ...
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How to tell my SO I am ashamed of people seeing us together [closed]
I have been dating a girl for almost one year and a half now. I am 24 and she is 22 and we are both from South America.
We started as friends with benefits but after meeting for almost 6 months we ...
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How to signal unavailability for a romantic or sexual relationship without elaborating on relationship status or personally rejecting someone?
Background
I'm in a happily monogamous relationship. I also am friends with someone I used to date. My friend and I generally void the subject of dating/romance now because it can be a sore subject ...
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How do I tell a love interest I'm probably too old for her?
I happened to be seated next to a lovely young lady on a flight recently. We hit it off really nicely, talked a lot during the flight, and she signaled she was single which is nice because I am too. ...
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5answers
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How to talk to a one night stand about her potential breast lumps issues?
I'm Brazilian, 23, and I went on a date with a Tinder match yesterday afternoon. At some point things got more intense and as I was fondling her breasts I felt two big lumps on her left one.
We've ...
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My boyfriend thinks we are in contact too much but I don't and I don't know how to express this to him without upsetting/annoying him [closed]
TL;DR: My boyfriend said that he thinks we're in contact too much and that we should cut back on how much we talk - I don't really know what to make of this because I see no issue in how much we talk ...
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Asking a romantic interest about her relationship status
Context:
I met a girl named Anna in a class at my university just under 2 years ago. Only toward the end of the semester, when we were working together as part of a group project, did I start to ...
