Sadly Id rather be in a miserable marriage again these days then be in meaningless relationships that I end up comparing you too ... sucks!

My friend's husband has told her he wants out of their marriage. She seems to think she can convince him to stay. One of the most important things I've learned about relationships is that if someone has to convinced to stay with me, then the relationship is over. All you're doing is delaying the inevitable. Let him go and get back your self respect.

My sister's fiancee is not a smart man. He is talented, hardworking and as long as he's good to her, I don't care. But I wonder how long my sister can live with being engaged/married to someone she far outpaces, mentally. This has never happened in any of her relationships.

A bad polyamorous relationship nearly ruined my marriage. Despite this, I am not against the practice. Some people obviously do better in such relationships. I think that we would have been okay if our girlfriend wasn't such a manipulative person.

Confessed a few days ago about a couple friend of ours where the husband lied about voluntary deployment. He finally told his wife the truth after many talks with my dh about honest relationships. I swear dh could talk sense into anyone. I'm glad he told her. I was worried I would have to go into mean mode and talk to him!

I'm glad DH is okay with my best friend being a guy. I'm glad best friend's wife is okay with it too. All of us get along just fine. It would be a shame to throw away a 15 year old friendship due to gender differences. Besides, he's family and like a brother. Neither of us are into incest. Yuck. Some relationships just simply cannot turn sexual. Romantic idealization makes me sick IMO.

I have trouble with female relationships due to my family. My mother had 7 girls I was 3rd in line. Now at family BBQ's and such, I get invited as the "entertainment". They are gossiping b*&^%*&. I do not trust women as a result and have male friendships instead. And yes my DH knows and sees what they do to me, he is very understanding about the whole mess.

If you have very few friends, and honestly want to know why no one wants to be friends with you, how do you go about finding out what your "personality defect" is? I have no trouble with male relationships, just female.

I'm in my late sixties. I never married. I spent half my life in relationships and the other half alone, doing what I wanted to do. Everyone told me I would get lonely, or that I would miss out of my soulmate, but I'm doing just fine. I always thought life was too short to be tied down.

I accept that in most cases, women have important relationships with their mothers. However, I have one of those abusive, insane mothers, and if I hear one more cliche about how I have to love her because she's my mom, or how I'm going to miss her so much when she's gone, I'm going to get blunt. Getting smacked around and humiliated by someone every day of your childhood, even if they gave birth to you, will kill any 'love' real quick. Don't make assumptions about people's relationships with their parents. You remember Susan Smith, right?