Happy Christmas/Happy Holidays/Christmas Love Antics

I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas! Thanks to you all for sharing yet another great year with Baggage Reclaim and I hope that Santa brings you all that you desire.
It wouldn’t be me not to give a word of caution so I will say…
I know it’s Christmas and people get [...]

Advice: Is he returning because he loves me or am I the Fallback Girl?

Six months into my separation, I received an email from one of my best high school friends, a man whom I had not heard from in 8 years except for occasional holiday cards. It was a basic email to ask how I was doing but after a month of talking casually, I learned that he [...]

Advice: Can I keep it light with Mr Unavailable and bail out before I get hurt?

JJ asks “I have been hurt in the past and went into a long phase of meaningless two month “relationships” and one-night stands before deciding upon abstinence, when lo and behold I met someone. He’s everything I always thought I really wanted - intelligent, funny, outgoing, and hot - but never had the guts to [...]

Advice: Why her and not me? The other woman gone very wrong

“I met a guy at work, who at the time had a long distance relationship going on 5 years. We somehow started talking at work and soon, we were IMing all day long. At the beginning, I had no feelings for him. He was just a cool guy at work that I started talking to. [...]

Advice: Where did I go wrong? The trap of the emotionally unavailable, inconsistent woman

Craig asks: I am 37-year-old single male who decided to try Internet dating as thought it would be a great way to actually meet someone based not entirely on physical attraction. I’d only been on the site for a month when I made contact with a woman who had been unhappily married for twenty years [...]