Exes
Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: Me, My Ex and a Baby

Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. This week, a reader asks Lauri: A few years ago, I briefly dated this guy (let’s call him X), though we never had sex. We parted mutually after only […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: Why Am I Obsessed with My Ex?

photo by hyperscholar Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. This week, a reader asks Lauri: I’ve been with my boyfriend for two months. We’re very happy, he’s my best friend, and I’m head over heels […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Can You Start from Scratch with an Ex?

Zazzle T-shirt Dear Em & Lo, I broke up with my boyfriend a few months ago, due to some problems with the relationship and some awful things that were going on in my personal life — it was just too much stress. I still have feelings for my ex, however, and recently we started talking […]

Pop Culture
Who Gets to Keep the Ring After a Broken Engagement?

Our friend Robin Epstein and her sister Amy Epstein Feldman just wrote a hilarious (not to mention helpful) book called  So Sue Me, Jackass! Avoiding Legal Pitfalls That Can Come Back to Bite You at Work, at Home, and at Play. Over the past few weeks, we’ve published excerpts answering questions like “Can you keep […]

Pop Culture
Can You Keep an Ex from Posting Your Nudie Pics?

Our friend Robin Epstein and her sister Amy Epstein Feldman just wrote a hilarious (not to mention helpful) book called So Sue Me, Jackass! Avoiding Legal Pitfalls That Can Come Back to Bite You at Work, at Home, and at Play. Over the past two weeks, we’ve published excerpts answering the questions “Can you get […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: BF Doesn’t Want Me, But Can’t Live Without Me

Dear Em and Lo, My boyfriend and I have been together for a year now. A few months ago we took a break and I moved out. I was really having a great time, but he showed up with roses and tears promising everything would change and that he couldn’t live without me. Fast Forward […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Can You Ask Your Exes for Charitable Contributions?

photo by Daquella Manera Dear Em & Lo, In September I will participate in a charity event that depends on donations from people I know to raise money. In order to make my fundraising goal, I’m going to email everyone I know. Is it tasteless to include exes who may not really like me anymore […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: He's Fighting a War; I'm Hanging with His Wife

photo by army.mil Dear Em & Lo, I’ve been troubled by something lately. One of my exes (from several years ago) got married and recently moved into my town with her husband and infant son. Her husband is in the military and was deployed shortly thereafter. Since then she and I have become very close […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Should She Fight for Her Ex?

photo by briannaorg We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]

Websites
Facebooking the One That Got Away

photo by sixeight A recent article in the NY Times magazine addressed the Faulknerian aspect of the “undead past” on Facebook, while asking what the 25 million Facebook users under 25 could possibly be doing on there: “What do they have to look back on?” Because one of the primary reasons to log onto Facebook […]

Dear Em & Lo
Dear Em & Lo: Help, My Friend Is Sleeping with My Ex!

Dear Em & Lo, I am so confused and upset. I recently found that my ex-boyfriend and a girl who I thought was a close friend of mine have been dating behind my back. The back story is that he and I dated for a year and broke up a year and a half ago […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Can She Be Friends with Her Ex?

We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after the jump: Dear […]