Dear John, It’s tough for me to say, but the truth is, every year we are married my wife and I are having less sex.  I don’t even know how to tell her that this bugs me.  What can I do?  Ed in Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Dear Frustrated:  Frequent sex is often the first casualty of a [...]

Dear John, I know that the time has come for me to ask my sweetheart to marry me, but I have to tell you, saying those four little words: “Will you marry me?”  is  just about the hardest thing I have ever needed to do. At the same time I know I love her with [...]

Dear John, What if you don’t feel trust, acceptance, appreciation, admiration, or approval towards your husband? What if he thinks my encouragement is just nagging? Ann in Portland, Oregon
Dear Ann, Your question was in response to a Mars Venus Living article that ran in January entitled “The Art of Giving and Getting Emotional Support” in which [...]

Dear John, How can you ask a man for emotional support, or how do you ask a man to be more affectionate? “We assume if he is not concerned about our feelings or is not affectionate then he does not care. That is how we function.” Why does asking him for this make him so [...]

Dear John, I need help! My wonderful husband and I have been married for three years. Our marriage is terrific in every way, but one: My husband was a virgin when we married, and I was not. His inexperience in the love making department is frustrating both of us, but he won’t try some specific [...]

I am twenty years-old and engaged to be married.  My fiancé, “Alex,” who is 22, is really a great guy.  We share the same values, but in certain ways we differ in how we view our relationship.  Maybe it’s just a Mars/Venus thing, but it does have me worried just the same. For example, he [...]

Dear John, Before I married “Tom,” we discussed what “success” in life meant to both of us. We are both well paid executives in different high tech companies and enjoy a high standard of living. We agreed that success for us was starting and raising a wonderful family.  Before we married, we both agreed that [...]

Dear John, What are your thoughts regarding online dating? I am a divorced 45-year-old (or should I say “young”) woman, and I’ve just started to come out of my shell after a fourteen-year failed marriage. I have been talking with several men and have met a few of them on dating sites. Some I have talked [...]

Dear John, Although I am married, I have gone without love and romance in my life for years.  Three months ago I met Pam, who has rekindled feelings that I have repressed for a very long time. This is an exciting new awakening for me! Feelings of love that I thought were lost forever have now [...]

Dear John, My wife is forty-two and a really attractive woman. She is rare in the fact that she makes clothes look great on her instead of the other way around. She has one big problem, however, she constantly remarks about her “need to lose ten pounds.”
This just doesn’t make any sense to me. She is [...]