359: How I Stopped Trying to Fix Him (And Wha...

Elizabeth waited six years for a proposal she was sure would come. What she and her partner had in the beginning felt nothing short of magical, but somewhere along the way, everything unraveled. Elizabeth felt alone and abandoned, spending hours crying in their bedroom, wondering ...  Show more

Carolyn felt the distance in her marriage almost from the beginning. Her husband worked long, exhausting hours and came home with little left to give. She managed everything alone in a city far from family. The conversations she tried to have ended in tears and days of silence. S ...  Show more

Dear Steve and Shirley, I was a single and attractive, 34 year old woman, losing hope at finding love. I grew tired of the dating cycle and I decided that I would not have sex again until I was married. I prayed and practiced celibacy and a year later, I met the man of my dreams. ...  Show more

They were in love for 6 years and building a life together. They froze embryos and agreed on a timeline for getting pregnant. But when the time came, he wavered, and the relationship fell apart. Now she finds herself alone, angry, scared, and having to rethink her definition of f ...  Show more

They had a whirlwind romance, and he spun a tale of their future to come—marriage, kids, a life together. He's in his mid-forties, and she is in her late thirties, and so after only three months together, she is pregnant, and they have broken up. Now, Esther meets her the month a ...  Show more

Dear Steve and Shirley, let’s get right to it. Here's my dilemma… I’m a 38 year old woman and I've never wanted to have children. Five years ago, I was in a great relationship and we were talking about getting married, but he wanted children and I did not. So we mutually decided ...  Show more