Dear Maggie,

I just don’t understand my boyfriend. We’ve been together for a year, and he says he loves me, but he doesn’t seem to. Like, the other night, I had tons of things to do, and I was telling him how overwhelmed I was, and how little time I had. And I thought he’d offer to stay later and help me. But he didn’t. He just went home. Another time, I showed up in a brand new dress, and he didn’t even notice. Or if he did, he didn’t say so. He never says he loves me unless I say it first. Well, once in awhile. But not often. If I tell him I’m sick, he “takes the night off.” From me, I mean. He even calls it that! Like I’m a job he has to do or something. If he were sick I would go over and take care of him. Make him chicken soup or give him a back rub or something. But when I’m sick, I get ignored. It’s not fair! I just don’t get it. How can he say he loves me when he acts like he doesn’t even care all that much?

Signed,

Mixed up & Miserable

Dear M&M,