Dear E. Jean: Seven months ago I rekindled things with my ex-husband, who’s now married to another woman. Foolish, I know! He swore he still loved me and was trying to extricate himself from his marriage. As it turned out, he and his wife were pursuing in vitro fertilization the whole time. Now I’m pregnant.

Dear E. Jean: I’m a professor at a small liberal arts college. During a very tempestuous four-year relationship with a scientist, I had sex with his colleague, and he retaliated by having sex with my best friend, so we broke up. Only problem is he’s now getting married, and we’re still talking on the phone

Dear E. Jean: It has been less than two months since we came home from our honeymoon, and my husband is refusing to have sex because—and it took me weeks to find this out—I made a comment in front of his family, joking about him “not doing squat around the house.” (He brought up the

Miss E. Jean: I have an awesome relationship with my 16-year-old daughter. She is very smart, funny, and beautiful. A couple of weeks ago, her boyfriend of a year and a half broke up with her, and she was devastated. So I let her stay in my room—we cuddled, I comforted, we talked. She wanted

Dear E. Jean: My boyfriend and I are in our late twenties, live together in New York, and enjoy flourishing careers; things are pretty solid. However, when we drink, he gets physical. He’s broken my cell phone, my digital camera, and other personal items. He’s never gotten aggressively violent with me, though he’s pushed me

Dear E. Jean:I’m a 25-year-old newlywed with a mother-in-law who goes through my stuff, tries to control what my husband and I do, and cries crocodile tears if things don’t go her way. She wrangles to get in between us and cause fights. When we’re dining with friends, she calls us and fakes being sick.

Whether it’s your dad or your baby daddy, all the special men in your life deserve a thoughtful gift come Father’s Day. For shopping inspiration, we polled our editors for the stuff they’ve gifted in the past or have wrapped up for this year. From practical to pleasurable, see top suggestions below. 1 The Practical

Dear E. Jean: My best friend constantly talks about how pretty she is. I’m not kidding. We can spend two hours together and the first hour is spent discussing how pretty she looks tonight, and the second hour is devoted to how pretty she looked last night and oh by the way, did you see

Dear E. Jean: I’ve been married for a year. I feel horrible saying this, but I’m not physically attracted to my husband. We’ve had an incredible relationship except for this one thing. He’s by far the best man I’ve ever met! I truly appreciate and love him, but I want to lust after him a

Elon Musk and Grimes are dating, and if that wasn’t odd enough, Grimes has taken her status as a C-suite girlfriend to another level. In a since-deleted tweet, the singer was seen defending Musk, saying he has not prevented Tesla employees from unionizing. She wrote, “it’s quite literally fake news. trust me, i’ve investigated this

Dear E. Jean: I met a man online; he lives in NYC and I live in L.A., but he said he’s moving here. He’s a professor, author, and film critic, and I checked him out: the syllabus for his class, his professional website with photo, and his friends on Facebook, including you, E. Jean. I

Wedding season is fast approaching, which means if you’re crying tears of joy for your betrothed friends, your wallet is also sobbing. Weddings are notoriously expensive affairs to have, but they can also be astronomically expensive to attend—especially if you’re in the wedding party. Here, four women share exactly how much they spent as bridesmaids

getty + design by Mia Feitel It’s Gemini season—so, uh, why all the fuss and panic from the other eleven zodiac signs? Advertisement – Continue Reading Below This articulate, inquisitive solar cycle promises to be one of the most entertaining times of 2018. After a month of industrious hustle and bullish determination, we can all

Dear E. Jean: Grab a box of Kleenex. This is a sad one. My guy of three years is funny, smart, stable, and bears a striking resemblance to George Clooney—but he’s a bit of a bore in bed. I feel you can’t teach an old dog new tricks (he’s 37), so since everything else is

Chrissy Teigen gave birth to her second child, Miles, this week. Two days after announcing his birth, she tweeted, “I can confirm postpartum life is 90% better when you don’t rip to your butthole. Baby boy: 1 point. Luna: 0.” She followed that up with an Instagram of herself holding her newborn and an asian

Dear E. Jean: Not to sound like every other whipsawed, witless, tormented person who writes to you, but I’m an educated, successful, financially well-off 32-year-old businesswoman. I married a charismatic, handsome, outgoing man, the CEO of his own booming company, two years ago. I knew he cheated on his first wife with his second wife,

To date, over 20 billion people have matched on Tinder and 26 more million people will swipe right on one another tomorrow, according to a representative for the app. Some of these are late-night lust-not-love connections; others are the result of those robot fingers that swipe right on 6,000 people an hour in hopes of

Dear E. Jean: I hate looking frumpy. Is it uncool to wear miniskirts at my age? I’m beginning to notice other women giving me these up-and-down looks and glancing at me rather nastily when I walk to work in my black-and-red plaid Converse and short skirts. If other women knew how messed up my hormones

Dear E. Jean: My friends are being fake. They lavish me with compliments—all of them so phony that I can’t believe they think I’m not seeing through it. Why? Because my new boyfriend is loaded—incredibly wealthy. They ambush us at parties with “pitches” for their “projects” and pleas to invest in their dreams. One of

Dear E. Jean: After my boyfriend’s dog passed away, he decided to get a tattoo in its memory. I personally don’t see the value in tattoos, but I was open to discussing with him some art and placement options that would make us both happy. However, he went to the tattoo parlor and called me

Dear E. Jean: I’m 25, and I just left a job as project manager at a major fashion label to begin part-time at an even bigger label—yet I feel like I’m floundering. Looking back, E. Jean, if you could give your 25-year-old self any advice, what would it be? —Is This All There Is? Miss

Dear E. Jean: I’m in love with a wonderful man. We laugh, talk, inspire, and support each other. We hug, we shag, we cuddle. He’s the one who understands me best. But when he asked me to marry him, I said no. Marriage to me is a death sentence, a path to a joyless, sexless

Dear E. Jean: Something is poisoning my life. I’m a 25-year-old musician, sweet, loving, attractive. The poison? Another musician. I’ve endured six years of his cheating, drinking, and lying. On top of that, he’s depressed, not even that good in bed, and constantly pushes me away. I’ve tried cutting him loose. Believe me, I know

“This Woman’s Work” is an ongoing series meant to highlight how women in different industries are living their lives. We hope to show that there’s no one “right” way to succeed. There are so many ways, and so many different experiences. Intermix President Jyothi Rao Courtesy of Intermix For Intermix president Jyothi Rao, a “work