SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I need you to settle a debate.  My girlfriend and I are planning to marry, and she feels that my parents should help split the wedding costs.  However, this big wedding (300 people) is not something I’m in favor of, and neither are my parents.  I think she and her […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I am currently dating a woman who works with me.  I really like her and enjoy being with her.  But, there is also another woman at work I’ve always admired but never approached.  Recently, at an office party, she slipped me a note expressing her interest and her phone number.  […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q. Do you think that a guy could really be into you emotionally, and compliment every woman he sees in your presence?  It really comes off like flirting and I think it’s disrespectful.  But he insists that he’s just being “friendly” and I’m displaying jealousy when I object to his behavior.  […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.   I recently discovered that my live-in boyfriend of five years had slept with a visiting cousin at my home.  I’m more upset with my cousin than I am with my boyfriend because I believe she seduced him, and he was just being a man.  I put her out and allowed […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.   My boyfriend proposed four months ago and we set the wedding date for October.  We were so happy until two weeks ago when I ran into him in a club dancing with an ex-girlfriend.  After an angry confrontation, he confessed that he still loved her and he called our wedding […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I have never felt so betrayed! For two years, I was involved with a guy I cared a lot for.  During that period, my best friend despised him and did quite a bit to discourage me from the relationship.  She always accused him of cheating and suspected him of trying […]

Viewpoint: My 7 “Romance” Rules For The New Year… by M.K. Allison I Will Not Ignore That Inner Voice.   Last year, I could have saved myself a lot of grief and heartache, if I heeded that small inner voice, which is always pure and practical.  I was constantly in and out of trouble because […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I’m engaged to a guy who is still very friendly with his ex-wife, because they have kids together, and I’ve been pretending that it doesn’t bother me, but it does.  I also don’t like the way she coos at him or acts at family gatherings.  She is still close to […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  My best friend stopped speaking to me and ended our relationship because I asked her boyfriend to dance when we were all out at a party.  She says I was rude and inappropriate and I disrespected her.  I tried to explain that it was only a dance.  I apologized, but […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  My boyfriend gave me an engagement ring after proposing to me on a double date with my best friend. However, a week later, he called and asked for it back after we had a very heated argument.  I refused, and he’s threatening to sue me to get his ring.  I […]