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Meredith Goldstein

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Writer and Advice Columnist at The Boston Globe

@BostonGlobe writer/advice columnist. Cotton candy enthusiast. 📚: THINGS THAT GROW, CAN'T HELP MYSELF, CHEMISTRY LESSONS. @LoveLettersBlog podcast. She/her.

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  • 5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

    Love LettersQ. I’m a 56-year-old male. Last year, a female friend in her early 40s asked me to dinner, and it became clear this was a date. We saw each other pretty intensely for about a month, then she started avoiding me. Finally she told me that she had been in a bad relationship the year before and didn’t want to get into another relationship. I said OK and stopped calling her.

  • 1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

    Love LettersI would advise anyone past 40 to not get married, period. You may feel young and in love, but you are transitioning into a period of life where your health and the health of your prospective partner can go down quickly. Financially and emotionally, it can destroy the caregiver. Forget about romance. My mother died of the flu and my father remarried in six months, in his 70s. Within a year, his wife got the news he had Alzheimer’s.

  • 1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

    Love LettersQ. I’m a 26-year-old male. It’s been a while since I’ve been in a serious relationship, but I recently met this woman and we really hit it off. We’ve been hanging out a lot and always have a great time together. We have very compatible personalities, lots of similar interests, etc. … but she has an OnlyFans. She is open about it, and her “content” is not crazy explicit. I’m in a very strange situation.

  • 1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

    Q. One of my closest friends from high school is going through a pretty rough breakup right now, and I’m trying to be there for him, but it’s kind of hard knowing what to say or do. They were together for a few years, and honestly, I thought they were going to make it. He’s not the type to open up a lot, but I can tell he’s hurting — like, more than he’s letting on. We’ve been hanging out more lately, just grabbing food or watching games, but the vibe’s different.

  • 2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Meredith Goldstein

    Love LettersQ. I am estranged from my mother for good reasons. My other siblings are as well. When I have shared the reasons why with friends, they always agree that it’s better not to have such a toxic and awful person in my life. I have no regrets. My question is what to say to people who ask me about her (if I see her often, etc.) when I don’t want to share all the gory details. I am in my 50s, she is in her 80s. We live a thousand miles apart. I have not seen her in 20 years.

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