Relationships

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I spy

I found out that my boyfriend is meeting his ex for lunch. Should I "accidentally" show up at the restaurant?

By Cary Tennis February 5, 2002
Is this all there is?

I'm in love with a woman and she's in love with me, but I think I want more. How can I break it off with her? Plus: Is it OK to contact an old flame via e-mail?

By Cary Tennis January 29, 2002
Sex without rules

Call it what you will, our version of polyamory is both freeing and anxiety-producing.

By Veronica Hayes January 23, 2002
Befuddlement

Bad affairs, boys who won't commit, long-distance love and -- threesomes.

By Cary Tennis January 22, 2002
Love and marriage

How do you choose when friends are getting a divorce, how do you reconcile the need to marry within one's culture and how do you live in a marriage without sex?

By Cary Tennis January 15, 2002
What's a guy to do?

I lied about past infidelities, and now I want to tell the truth to my true love. Will she accept it, or will she leave me in the dust?

By Cary Tennis January 8, 2002
Almost like love

The potential for innocence beckoned me and I became reckless in search of it.

By Lillian Ann Slugocki December 19, 2001
Fear of foolishness

How can I stop worrying about what other people think of my boyfriend?

By Cary Tennis December 18, 2001
Fighting off fantasies

Encounters with strange musicians, married women and old boyfriends are part of the joys and exquisite frustrations of life.

By Cary Tennis December 11, 2001
Afraid of being hurt again

Look for a man who has reached the "no bullshit" stage, where they accept who they are and the way life is.

By Cary Tennis December 4, 2001
Torn between two lovers

How can I move on when I keep thinking about the ex I left? What is the latest sleeping-around etiquette? How can I ask a girl out?

By Cary Tennis November 27, 2001
Hair do's and don'ts

Is there a way to gently tell my boyfriend his combover is ridiculous? Plus: The ex-lover I'm still smitten with keeps trying to set me up with other girls!

By Cary Tennis November 20, 2001
Long-distance love

My boyfriend smells good and I can't imagine kissing anyone else, but he lives in New Zealand! Our advice man consults on this and other conundrums.

By Cary Tennis November 6, 2001
Fooling around or falling in love?

Should my husband be grading me on my sexual performance? Should I get braces? Should I trust someone just because he pays his taxes on time? Cary answers all these questions, and more.

By Cary Tennis October 30, 2001
Boys will be boys

Our advice man holds forth on how to get a date before we all die, husbands who chew their tongues, how to put the thrill back in a marriage and why kissing is "yucky."

By Cary Tennis October 23, 2001
Love in the time of terrorism

Please tell me that you were compelled to take a stranger to bed, then tell me that you will never speak of it again.

By Lillian Ann Slugocki October 19, 2001
Love among the ruins

Salon's new advice columnist addresses the perils of post-Sept. 11 romance, fear of being fat, a best man's toast that went too far and other scenes from the human dramedy.

By Cary Tennis October 17, 2001
Couples in crisis

With their last breath people wanted to reach out and say, "I love you."

By Cole Kazdin October 10, 2001
Single survivor

In the aftermath of disaster, dating becomes an absurd folly. Who has the luxury of spending a few hours with someone you may never see again?

By Jennifer Howze September 26, 2001
Chronicle of a marriage

I lusted after another woman, and told my wife about it.

By Barry Sallinen September 6, 2001
Long-term sex

In my 34-year odyssey with the same woman we've moved from naive fooling around to drugs, rock 'n' roll, porn -- and marriage.

By Barry Sallinen September 4, 2001
Mothering without a net

Our house by the beach is a car. We are homeless.

By Michelle Kennedy August 28, 2001
One hundred girls for every boy

Women's college was empowering -- and deeply alienating.

By Theresa Rusho August 20, 2001
Pretending us

Why do we make this big deal out of this simple and absurd thing that two bodies do?

By Carol L. Skolnick August 20, 2001
She was an American girl

Maybe, he thought, my life is going to be all right now.

By Joe Kuhl August 8, 2001