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 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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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.
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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 ...
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Confronting girlfriend about sending me conversations with other guys
My female friend likes to send me print-screens of her conversations with other guys. There's no romantic content whatsoever, or any content that bothers me, but just the fact that she sends it to me ...
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How can I have a conversation with my wife to be ensured of her faithfulness?
I am living in India and I married a beautiful wife recently (this was an arranged marriage). I am working in office from 9AM to 5PM, she is a housemaker. We are living in a building where most of the ...
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How to tell a person who is interested in me that a relationship is not an option?
I have this workmate for almost 2-months now, who is an all-out person. I mean, she's not afraid to tell any of her feelings towards another person. Now, she told me she likes me. I told her, which I ...
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etiquette in dealing with long cold war [closed]
Let's call this friend, lady A.
We begun as friends three years ago through a dating site but she was warm with her affections shortly into the friendship through the show of her handmade gifts to me....
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How do I approach maintaining a friendship with someone I used to date, who now has a significant other?
Background:
I'm a single 20-something man living in a major city who is actively dating. I met a woman about 5-6 months ago on a dating website, let's call her Alice. Alice and I hit things off ...
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How can I transition a conversation about Taylor ham, with a girl, into other topics [closed]
Background:
I recently met a girl in Manhattan, near where I live. As I got to know her - we both happened to be getting late night food at the same place - she taught me about something called "...
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How to ask someone on a date when dating isn't usual in your culture?
Background
One similar question is How to clearly communicate that you're asking someone on a date?, but here my situation is noticeably different.
I am from India and many girls don't even ...
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How can I know whether a female house guest is interested in more than a friendly visit?
We have met around 4 months ago, we both are from the same country and are on an internship abroad. She lives quite far from me (around 400 km). We have chatted a bit since we've met and our ...
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Whether to Initiate Contact With Barista [duplicate]
I frequent a particular coffee shop 3-4 times a week, and am pretty familiar with the baristas, as I see them often. I've noticed one of them, C, is flirty and playful with me, and seems genuinely ...
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How to let someone know he hurt me without spreading negative feelings
I am living in a flat with 3 other persons, 2 females and 1 male. I am a 25 year old male too.
I have some romantic feelings for one of the female flatmates, Alice, but we have never spoken about it ...
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Best way to talk about my doubts with my girlfriend.
I'm following this stack from the beginning but posting this anonymously was needed.
Context
I'm in my mid-twenties and with my girlfriend for more than 8 years now. We are from a western Europe ...
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How to ask cashier out for date
I am 21 years old and living in a large city in Germany where smalltalk in local markets is not a common thing.
A new cashier joined my local food shop. She’s always at the checkout and never doing ...
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How do I tactfully ask a close friend out?
Context
I became friends with a girl named Penny around a year ago when she started dating my good friend Kyle; Penny and I became friends when she became a part of the friend group Kyle and I were a ...
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How to prepare my girlfriend for the break-up?
Context:
My girlfriend Alice and I have been together for the past 4 years, we're both 20 years old. I've recently decided to end our relationship for reasons related to some traits of her ...
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How to tell a date I really enjoyed our dates so far and I would like to go on another, when I might have offended her? [closed]
Here's the setting:
Blake and I met while in graduate school, taking a couple of classes together. She had this quiet intelligence about her that was really attractive, and on one wintry night, I ...
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Is this a good way (with respect to time) to disclose an STD to a potential partner?
Background
I have HSV1 on my genitals; I don't get mouth sores. I got the diagnosis a couple of years ago. I've dated several people since then. I kissed my first potential partner (since the ...
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Best way to tell a new friend I'd like to date her
Last summer I met this girl at a festival. I had this almost instant feeling she's perfect girlfriend material. Turns out though that just a few days earlier she'd fallen for another guy at the ...
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How to tell a girl that I want to “try” date her
This is my first question on this stack, so anything I can improve in this question, just comment on it.
The story so far:
About two weeks ago I found a girl online that sparked my interest, and ...
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Girlfriend, vegetarianism and me not wanting to change
Me and Alice are back. This is somewhat related to another one of my questions but more about me this time.
I have planned to visit my girlfriend Alice in a few months, during which I will be staying ...
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How could I determine if one simply could not or also would not like to go on a date? [closed]
I am not particularly good at picking up on social cues, and, regardless, a question of what cues might indicate the answer to my question would be more opinion-based.
For context, I am an 18-year-...
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How can I explain to my partner that my online interactions are important to me to reduce their frustration when I talk about them?
How can I explain, to my partner, that my online interactions, particularly here on Stack Exchange, are important and of value to me with the goal of them not feeling frustrated that I'm "wasting" my ...
