‘I feel smothered by my clingy boyfriend. It makes me want to run a mile’
Tell Me About It: ‘His insecurity is growing all the time and the fact that we are together over a year has not helped’
‘I am on a voluntary board and I’m shocked at the politics and naked ambition of some people’
Tell Me About It: I cannot afford to lose my connections in this area, so should I keep to my principles or just suck it up?
‘At our engagement party, my partner’s sister announced she had gotten engaged too’
Tell Me About It: ‘I now have questions about the rest of his family and their casualness about how she usurped our day’
My friend is in a miserable relationship that she won’t leave
Tell Me About It: ‘He’s not kind to her and she has had to give up things she wanted, like marriage, because they are not what he wants’
‘My lover has told me of another relationship. I’m worried the stress might kill him’
Tell Me About It: ‘We have discussed living together in his country, and I have put my house up for sale’
‘My lovely husband has changed . . . and I am one of the people he has pushed away’
Tell Me About It: ‘Our life together has been replaced by distance, with a deliberate decision on his part to engage in new activities’
Girls keep telling me by message that they want to stop dating me
I’ve been in situations where I expected things to progress to a relationship, but then I get an unexpected message
‘Throughout my life I’ve struggled to read social and romantic cues, particularly in relationships’
Tell Me About It: ‘I’m feeling overwhelmed by the state of my personal life’
‘My cousin won’t end his marriage and formalise his relationship with his lover of 15 years’
Tell Me About It: ‘He has been living a kind of Irish divorce of old where he still goes to family events with his wife’
‘Am I crazy to think my partner secretly wants to get back with his wife?’
Tell Me About It: ‘He does not bring me to any of the kids’ events. It feels like I am not important enough in his life’
‘I’m in my late 30s, have a good job and travel a lot. I don’t think I’ve ever been in love’
Tell Me About It: ‘I find it hard to muster the enthusiasm that might be required to take any relationship to the next level’
‘I don’t love my husband. I care for him and don’t wish him ill health, but I’m struggling’
Tell Me About It: I just feel so deflated, with nothing to look forward to any more
I’ll soon have a second house. How do I tell my friend who just had to move back in with her parents?
Tell Me About It: I feel awful for my friend in her situation and don’t want her to feel like I’m rubbing her nose in it
‘I’m really starting to dislike my husband... I am exasperated and I dread spending time with him’
Tell Me About It: He has become extremely interested in and angry about immigration issues... I find his online presence an embarrassment
‘I’m an atheist and my fiancée’s strong Catholic beliefs have caused a chasm over our wedding and raising our future children’
Tell Me About It: Use the mutual influence in your relationship to grow what is already great about it