Distances and Decisions
My partner and I have been together for five years and we’re discussing marriage. It’s the next logical step for us and we both want that commitment. The problem (not for us) is that in all the time we’ve been a couple we haven’t lived together and even with marriage our feeling is that we want to maintain two separate homes. Of course down the road we might change our minds but for now living “separately together” works for us. How do we handle the naysayers? Your marriage,


Questions of Time
My mom is 70 and she wants to marry her boyfriend of twenty years. I really like the guy but just don’t see the need to make it legal after all these years and I’m having a hard time getting on board with this. Your mom and her future husband have had twenty years to cement their relationship and if they want to make it legal it’s understandably their right to do so- whenever they want to do so. I suggest getting on the wedding bandwagon and do so with a smile on your face. I

