Dear Miss U,
…We have been doing okay, I’d say, as far as dealing with long distance until recently, when he became super busy with school work. He’s been saying he doesn’t want to break up, but how hard this is and he doesn’t know what to do because he doesn’t have much time for me right now. I don’t want to lose him and he’s the one who convinced me to do long distance, so I’m extremely worried now about our relationship. I don’t know what to do to convince him that we will be okay. I’ve tried to tell him we need to Facetime more but he says he doesn’t have much time and that’s not good for us… [read more]

Dear Miss U,
So I have been chatting online with this guy for a year now I am in the US and he is in the Philippines. I plan to go over in a few months. He seems really nice puts family first, works hard, and tells me he wants to marry. But I told my parents about me visiting and they are like, “No, something could happen to you.” I know I am old enough to go I just want them to be supportive and give him a chance… [read more]

Dear Miss U,
I met my boyfriend online but he can never face time or call me because he doesn’t have enough money to keep his phone on. We talk while he’s at work and has wifi but I really want to interact more with him. I don’t want to offend him by saying I don’t believe him because I really don’t know but I’m really struggling to keep a relationship through text… [read more]

Dear Miss U,
We started dating four months ago, things were great but 2 months ago he left for college and it’s pretty far away. I’ve visited him once for his birthday. I am so happy and proud of him for adjusting and making friends easily and smoothly, but now our relationship is on some sort of schedule and we talk to each other in like 15-minute intervals. He is so busy and I am too but it just feels like he is loving school more than he loves me… [read more]

Dear Miss U,
I have been having trouble because I seem to only look forward to the weekends and am only happy on the weekend because I know that’s when I will be seeing my boyfriend. And if there is a conflict and I am not able to see my boyfriend one weekend I get extremely upset and can’t snap out of it and find something else to do to make me happy. It’s like I can’t be happy or do fun things without him, which makes me feel pathetic and dependent… [read more]

Dear Miss U,
…This past May I visited him at his school and I found out he cheated on me and kissed another girl one of his first weekends at school. I found out from the girl he kissed. He said it was because he felt pressured because no one else had a girlfriend. He cried and felt so awful and knew that if he told me when it happened I would’ve broken up with him and we wouldn’t have spent 2 years together. Now he is abroad and going out with his friends and traveling, but most of the times he is with a friend that also has a girlfriend. He is going on a week-long trip without his friend, and with other guys without girlfriends and I can’t shake the feeling that he will feel pressured again… [read more]