Meredith Goldstein

6 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

Love LettersQ. I recently matched with a woman on a dating app whom I recognized right away. I didn’t know her personally, but I knew of her because of her occupation and her involvement in a high-profile legal case. I fundamentally disagree with what she does as part of her job, and yet I’m also curious about why she chose to match with me. We wouldn’t be able to talk about her work — nor would I want to — but I keep wondering: Could I ever date someone whose professional role I so deeply oppose? A.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

Q. We’ve been together for six years. Earned degrees, made cross-country moves, and were very much in love. The thing is, you can be in love and ready to move on at the same time. I let her know in January that when the lease ends at the end of May, we do too. The thing is, things are fine. Mild. I’m bored, and we’re basically playing house, and kisses are short and quite obsolete. Her new apartment lease started a few weeks ago, but she is still here. Can I ask her to move out and I stay?

1 week ago | boston.com | Meredith Goldstein

Question 4 would have decriminalized the use of some psychedelic substances. It also would have allowed residents to grow some psychedelic substances at home. Six months after the vote, advocates are still lobbying for an acceptance and legalization of psilocybin – because of what it could do for mental health. Even at Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers and doctors are putting great effort into how magic mushrooms might help human brains.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

Love LettersQ. I’m feeling paralyzed by the amount of love I have to give with seemingly no receptor. I’m a 22-year-old lesbian feeling like a kindergartner of adulthood. I feel so deeply loved and loving in my platonic friendships, but I know I have so much love and thoughtfulness I want to extend romantically. I’ve gone on a number of dates with someone recently, but I feel like we may be showing up differently in our expressions of love.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

Love LettersQ. After seven years of dating — following a divorce from a man I was married to for decades who could rarely bring himself to say the words “I love you,” let alone actually mean them (he was in love with someone else for our entire marriage) — I finally did fall for someone who blurted it (it = “I love you”), in a moment of passion, after two months of dating. I wanted to cry. I couldn’t believe my ears. I was very much in love with him. Still am.