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My boyfriend of two years and his wife are separating. While boyfriend and I are super close, wife and I are not. I'm trying to give him space (he's busy and tends to have stress over time) and also make our relationship fun and easy for him, but I don't think I'm doing a very good job. Our...

Thank you all for your advice. It has been invaluable. To clear things up a bit, I don't expect anything from him/them besides friendship; I would be a little hurt if he decided to cut me off entirely, but I fully expect to not be spending as much time together. Our relationship is still very...

That sounds like a really good idea and something that I could definitely do. Thank you!

One thing that I might not have mentioned is that I'm almost never over at their place, so I would feel awkward just offering offhand to help with chores or errands. I would like to be in a position to do that, though. They also already have a regular cleaning lady, so offering to help in that...

I've been dating a guy, J, for about 3.5 months. We started things with the understanding it would be "casual." He told me right away that he was married. Neither of us were interested in getting very attached; "just sex" was a perfectly acceptable baseline. As things happened, we got along...