“I’m bored with my relationship, but isn’t that normal?”

Me and my boyfriend have been together for about a year-and-a-half, and have been living together for eight months. When we moved in, we fought a lot.

Even though we have resolved those issues, i have thoughts of being with different people, fantasizing what it might be like. I read that its normal to be attracted to other people while committed, but I almost have a feeling of dissatisfaction, or boredom.

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Welcome to LemonVibe 3.0!

If you’ve been around these parts, then you probably noticed that LemonVibe just underwent a substantial facelift. That’s because I’ve made some changes to the site, based on feedback that I’ve received:

  1. Blurbs and tiffs will now be reviewed and edited before publishing. To be blunt, the grammar and spelling we’ve encountered on countless burbs has been atrocious, and people were having a hard time understanding many of the questions. Hopefully now, this won’t be a problem.
  2. Requiring a login to comment turned out to be a substantial barrier to participation. For this reason, you can now post comments without logging in. The consequence of this change, unfortunately, is the loss of our rating system. For those of you who spent years amassing a respectable rating on LemonVibe, I do apologize. It was a tough decision, but in the end, I realized that a rating system is pointless if no one comments in the first place.
  3. The site is now hosted on WordPress.com. This may or may not make you giddy.

And that’s pretty much it. Over the past few years now, we’ve had a steady increase in blurbs, but a noticeable decline in commenters. I’m hoping these changes will encourage people to participate once again.

See you in the blurbs and tiffs!

-Dennis

“I love him, but he wants me to go for his best friend”

I have a friend that I have known since I was 4, and I am now 22. I stated liking him back in grade 6 ( when I was 11), started really liking him in high school, but never did anything because he was my brother’s good friend.

Well, coming home from school this January, I started talking to him again, and I fell even harder than I ever thought I would. He told be I was his first crush and that he has always liked me “like that.” Recently, we had a downfall with a lie that was started though his ex and mine. It tore us apart. He said he needed time, and I respected that. During this time, it seemed as though he lost all interest in ever being with me.

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“Can I forgive him, or should I leave?”

I’ve been with my boyfriend 15 months, living together for 6. I’m 27.

Up until a week ago, my life revolved around this man. I never believed in soulmates or anything, but he was my best friend. He made me feel like it could be true. I trusted him with my life.

About a week ago, I was talking to a friend about a girl my boyfriend used to live with. My boyfriend had told me this girl was obsessed with him, that she had kissed him on the cheek once, but that was it. Nothing else had ever happened.

I had a niggling feeling, and I remember asking him a few times about this girl. Each time he got cross and told me I had to trust him.

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“After the break, would an apology gift be appropriate?”

My boyfriend and I are currently on a break because I lied about my past. I felt so guilty and wrong that I eventually told him the truth after I built up the courage to do so. I knew that telling him would hurt his feelings, so I kept putting it off, until I felt I couldn’t keep it to myself any more.

He, quite rightly, feels hurt and doesn’t know if he can trust me, as he has been entirely honest with me about his past — a very difficult thing to do.

However, I believe that as our relationship was so strong before, we are still the same people, and the lie could eventually be forgiven, as it was said out of insecurity and fear, with no intention of causing harm.

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“Should I stay or should I go?”

I’m a mum of a lovely two-year-old who I love with all my heart. I’m with her dad at the moment, but we had a bit of an off/on relationship, although we’ve been together for about 10 years.

Problem is, he makes me feel so low about myself sometimes (especially after he’s had a drink). Even when our daughter calls out for mummy when she wakes up in the night, he blames me for “over-mothering” and making him feel like a bad father! I am a very hands-on mum and work in childcare. so my daughter spends a lot of time with me. which I personally think is great. as we have such a great relationship. But he makes me feel guilty about this so often!

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“Insecurity…”

Hi, I need your help and advice, please.

I have been seeing this girl for about 5 months now, and I think I’m in love with her. The problem, however, is her ex-boyfriend keeps calling and chatting her.

I have discussed how uncomfortable I am with that, but she claims there is nothing going on between them. Recently, she has been saving this guy’s profile pictures on her phone, and even had him as her bbm display once.

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“Lied early on in the relationship, now he can’t trust me, advice needed”

I’m 18, female, and have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for over a year now.

At the start of our relationship I lied about being with other people, exaggerating my sexual past, so I wouldn’t seem like such an inexperienced girl. I didn’t think much of it at the time, it was very early on.

However, he has been completely honest about his sexual past and I have betrayed his trust by lying about mine. I love him so much that I didn’t want to lose him, the more time that passed, the worse it got, eventually I had to come out with the truth, that he was the only man I’d ever properly been with.

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