It took a long time for me to earn this child’s trust but I feel like I am getting sucked into her mother’s black cloud

Tell Me About It: ‘Extended family and friends subtly, and not-so-subtly, suggest that I’d be happier in a relationship’

Tell Me About It: ‘I really feel worthless and can’t see myself doing anything worthwhile’

Tell Me About It: I am tempted to pull him out of this sport as it normalises such awful behaviour

Tell Me About It: ‘I’m worried I’ll be put into a situation where I have to tell them something I don’t want to share with them yet’

Tell Me About It: ‘Should I tell each of them that the other person has feelings for them or let them figure it out?’

Tell Me About It: ‘His insecurity is growing all the time and the fact that we are together over a year has not helped’

Tell Me About It: I cannot afford to lose my connections in this area, so should I keep to my principles or just suck it up?

Tell Me About It: ‘I now have questions about the rest of his family and their casualness about how she usurped our day’

Tell Me About It: ‘He’s not kind to her and she has had to give up things she wanted, like marriage, because they are not what he wants’

Tell Me About It: ‘We have discussed living together in his country, and I have put my house up for sale’

Tell Me About It: ‘Our life together has been replaced by distance, with a deliberate decision on his part to engage in new activities’

I’ve been in situations where I expected things to progress to a relationship, but then I get an unexpected message

Tell Me About It: ‘I’m feeling overwhelmed by the state of my personal life’

Tell Me About It: ‘He has been living a kind of Irish divorce of old where he still goes to family events with his wife’