“It’s like the woman has to be in the dark until the burden of the work comes along.” “I hate this whole idea that everything has to be a surprise,” a friend recently told me. We were talking about proposals, specifically hers. It hadn’t been a surprise; she and her then-boyfriend had discussed getting engaged. […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, My partner and I have been together for almost nine years. We are in love, are deeply […]
