Have you spent hours trying on different outfits preparing to meet her? Have you listened intently, feverishly trying to project your sincere interest and appreciation for her unsolicited advice; as you think to yourself, “this is my wedding and I’m planning it how I want to?” When the phone rings and you see her name come up on the caller ID, do you cringe hoping your husband will pick up the phone? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then you have encountered The Other Woman. The Other Woman is your husband’s mother. Read the full story

Jane is in her mid to late twenties, educated, career oriented, driven in both personal and professional endeavors, independent and humble. She’s a good friend to those she cares about, values family and believes in making a difference in her community. She’s attractive - keeping herself personally fashionable without being necessarily ‘high maintenance’. In relationships she can be simultaneously firm and tender, demanding and forgiving, faithful and spontaneous. By most accounts, she’s a catch - despite this, she’s single, both by choice and by circumstance. Frustrated by an inability to reconcile how wonderful she knows she is against the fact that she’s single and unwilling to endure the self-depreciating cycle of settling, in our most recent conversation she renounced relationships in full saying simply - “I’m done”, while wondering aloud “who is Mr. Right - does he really exist - and what do I need to do to find him”?
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Over the past couple of years, more and more of my personal friends have taken the step to either get married or get engaged.  When I first began to notice the trend, I thought it was just something that happens when you hit your mid-twenties - your peers start getting married.  As the numbers of engagement parties, wedding showers, and bachelor parties I was attending continued to grow, I realized, it’s not just my peers, but friends of varying ages and at varying stages of their lives have also started to take that step. I’ve had friends who are still in college get engaged, I’ve had friends fresh out of college set wedding dates, I’ve attended the weddings of people I went to college with.
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Recently, a good friend of mine asked me following: 
How do you know when it’s time to let go of a long-term relationship? 
She’s been with her guy on and off for a number of years. They’ve been through a lot; vast physical separation, infidelity, in between loves, times of extreme joy and times of equally extreme pain. Through it all they’ve managed to spend the last two years in relative peace. No states or countries separating them, no other men or women distracting them and, having both moved to a city far from their hometown, no family or friends to fall back on–for the first time in their relationship, it’s just them, and they have all the time in the world to just be. But in what should be the most wonderful time in their entire relationship, she cannot reconcile their seemingly miraculous survival of past tumultuousness against this unshakeable sense of unhappiness and dissatisfaction she now feels. And that is where her question was born. Read the full story