My Life, My Way, My Truth

My Friend Sweety asks a dating question: "We've been dating a few months now, and I feel like I'm falling in love with my boyfriend. How can I tell he feels the same way without asking him outright?"

I once counseled a preteen girl who had told me she had a boyfriend for a day. No one knew that she had a boyfriend, and they didn't do anything but read a book together. She told me that she broke up with him because she realized she didn't like him "like that", but wanted to know if she'd done the right thing. My answer? "When you meet someone that you are so excited about, so enraptured over, that you can't help but want to yell off the top of the mountain how amazing they make you feel -- you'll know. Because if he was meant to be your boyfriend, you wouldn't want to