The other woman wants to be the only woman
You are living a lie with one man, and pining for another. I hope you will find other, more worthwhile ways to define yourself. Life is too short!
Sex and passion are on one side of the relationship coin, and "love" is on the other. Sex and passion can be fickle and fade, but real love endures. Sam might actually love his wife. Leave him alone.
Dear Amy: I am in a powerless situation. My boyfriend and I have been together for 10 months. We met at college, and are very happy. We are pursuing different majors.
He's in a particularly difficult major, taking very difficult classes, and his grades haven't been the best.
He's been passing, but not with great grades.
His mother recently became aware of this and gave him an ultimatum: He can either break up with me, or leave the college and move back home.
We love each other and don't want to end our relationship, but I also don't want him to have to leave school.
His mother believes that our relationship is too distracting for him and that he needs to focus only on school.
He tried to argue that I've helped him by studying with him, and also quizzing him.
Nothing seems to convince her that our relationship is beneficial to him.
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