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Should I Allow My Boyfriend to Experience Another Woman?
Dear Neil: My boyfriend and I have been together over three years. During a break in our relationship, I had a one-night stand. I told him about it, and now he is very jealous because he didn’t get the opportunity that I did.
We are now back together, but he still talks about the desire ...read more
Categories: Boundaries Infidelity Men and Women: Gender Differences in Relationships Relationship Problems Conflicts or Challenges
Passing the “Do-You-Care-Test” After a Betrayal
PASSING THE “DO-YOU-CARE-TEST” AFTER A BETRAYAL
Dear Neil: I need some advice. My wife recently ended a four month affair when I accidentally discovered that she had been stepping out on me. She has acknowledged wrong doing (she was caught, ...read more
Categories: Anger Infidelity Relationship Problems Conflicts or Challenges
Men Behaving Badly, and What You Can Do About It
It’s plastered all over recent news reports. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund—and a ...read more
Categories: Infidelity Relationship Problems Conflicts or Challenges
Are Men More Damanged by Infidelity Than Women?
Dear Neil: My partner of 14 years and I have recently separated—the catalyst being my discovery of her third affair in the last 8 years. In telling her how damaging her affairs have been to me—feelings of betrayal, hurt, anxiety and humiliation—I said an affair is about the most ...read more
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Husband Admits to Having Sex With Other Men! What Do I Do?
Dear Neil: My husband of 15 years has just told me of his active bisexuality. He has been having sexual liaisons for the whole of our marriage, and tells me that 80% of the men he has sex with are heterosexual, in stable relationships, and with no intentions of leaving their partners/wives/families—or ...read more
Categories: Infidelity
Can I Love Two Men at The Same Time?
Dear Neil: I would be interested in your opinion of my romantically loving two people at the same time. I am very happily married with two children. I am also in love with a colleague at work. My husband is aware of my attraction to this other man, but because he feels threatened ...read more
Categories: Infidelity
Lack of Sex Leads Couple to the Brink
Dear Neil: Five years ago, when husband’s ADHD/bi-polar son started acting out, I was so exhausted after working all day and then dealing with his son that I had no desire for lovemaking. After about a year and a half without intimacy, one night was all it took and I became pregnant. ...read more
Categories: Infidelity Sex / Sexual Issues
Betrayal May be Too Hard to Overcome
Dear Neil: I’ve been in an on-and-off again relationship with a man I have two children with. I love him dearly and I want to be with him. But he wants to leave in order to determine what he really wants from our relationship and how he feels about me. He’s having a hard ...read more
Categories: Dating / Singles Issues Infidelity Rejection Sex / Sexual Issues Trust and Betrayal
Can Someone Who Cheats Still Be in Love?
Dear Neil: What causes some people to cheat multiple times with multiple partners, or to cheat habitually? Can a person who habitually cheats also love his/her spouse? Infidelity changes a person into someone who is deceitful, foolish, cold and calculated. What is that ...read more
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Emotional Affairs
Dear Neil: I have just discovered that my wife of two years has had what she is calling “an affair of the heart” with someone else. She assures me that they haven’t sexually consummated the relationship, and says she doesn’t love him, but says they have grown very close and emotionally ...read more
Categories: Infidelity Trust and Betrayal
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