Depression Effects Marriage

Dear Neil:  My relationship with my husband has recently gone downhill.  I have been depressed for a long time, and just haven’t had the energy to give to him; I haven’t been attentive, sexual, enthusiastic, happy or fun.  I would like our relationship to improve, but I don’t know what to do.  Can you help? […]

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Guarded Heart

Being willing to risk hurt is key to deepening a relationship Dear Neil: I am an attractive, single professional woman in my early 40’s. I have a good figure, no children. I have been divorced for ten years and have dated a lot of different men. So why am I still single? My relationships with […]

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Rising to the Occasion

“Could you write about how to deal with either ugly remarks or looks from people?” writes a woman from rural Colorado.  “I have a disfiguring disorder (neurofibromatosis) [and have] masses of small tumors on my face, neck, arms and all over. “In winter, I can hide most of them (long sleeves, turtle necks, etc.) but […]

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