My mother does not approve of my boyfriend. Emotional Context To provide context - my boyfriend worked with my Mother. She was the executive of the company. I referred my current boyfriend(back then he was my friend) to the company. They hired him. After he started working there we started dati...

About us We are a European couple, I´m 23 male and she is 24 female, from Spain. We have been together for about 5 months. Context My girlfriends mother passed away a couple of years ago, and she hasn´t really talked to me too much about her. Some nights ago, while we were in bed about to slee...

Alright, I apologize if the question might sound a bit too general. Yet I feel I need advice from the outside, so... Here is the story I am 22 now, and since maybe 13-14 I've been hanging with the same guy in school. We did not have any romantic feelings for each other (whereas he could come to ...

My mother has a strained relationship with her family, particularly her mother. As children, we only met my mother's side of the family on rare occasions and now that my siblings and I are grown, I don't believe my mother is in any kind of communication with her mother or brother. I don't really ...

I try to say what I mean, and mean what I say. Sometimes I just want to say "Hi" or "Hello" without asking the person how they are going. I like to ask how they are or how they are going only when I am genuinely interested in hearing the response. The thing is, if I just say "Hi", it can seem c...

My partner has a friend from way-back, T. We sometimes hang out with him and his family and go on day trips together. I've known them for 5 years but the contact is not always as frequent. While we both ran into T, my partner was invited to a BBQ for T's birthday. He specifically mentioned I sho...

It's been few week that I'm reading posts here, but unfortunately it seems that a lot of the interesting one get closed down. Either for being to broad or intrapersonal instead of interpersonal, but why shouldn't this forum be broader ? People come to seek for help regarding their relation, why...

We have a new colleague. He comes from another region (same country: Germany) and is rather outgoing: He talks a lot (sometimes too much), is generally very friendly and is rather cheerful. He moved here, which means he has (to my knowledge), no social contacts here besides us. The problem is: E...

I've noticed posts on suicide, abuse, potentially dangerous situations, lovelorn questions, and some posts referring to behavior where professionals should be called in ASAP. Should these questions be shut down quickly and are there resources we know of which may be of service to these people th...

A few months ago, my wife's father and his girlfriend told us they wanted to get us a big leather chair for Christmas. We didn't really want a leather chair, nor did we have anywhere to put it, so we told them "We really appreciate the offer, but don't really have room for that right now. If yo...

How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others? This question has been closed as unclear what you're asking. The reason seems rather weird to me, because OP has explained a problem, a goal to achieve, and asked a question related to IPS. It's nicely and c...

How should i assert whether a friend is no longer interested in keeping a relation ? similar: How to find out if a friendship is really being shut down? but a different context 'single friend, with a good relation, for 5 years'. also i should include that we live in the same city, knows that ...

i asked the girl i like if she wanted to do something in the weekend and she told me she was going to the beach with her mother (she is german) and said i could go too, i asked if it wouldn't be a problem (maybe hoping it was), she said it wasn't. i really want to go but i am extremely nervous, ...