I’m not interested in getting married, and I wish people would leave me alone. When I was a teenager, I decided that marriage is definitely not for me. My parents have a terrible marriage. I can’t tell if they really hate each other even though they do things for each other, but my mother always […]
I am a single man who’s never been married. I live in my parents’ house, though I can really say that my parents live with me, because I pay all the bills. I am ashamed to say that I am 40 years old, but that’s the truth. I’m not chassidish or yeshivish, and yet I […]
Question I never thought this could happen to me, but I’m in love with a “Tuna Beigel.” That means he’s an ex-chassidishe guy with a heavy chassidishe accent, but he looks Modern Orthodox. (By the way, he calls himself a Tuna Beigel, and all his friends who are like him call themselves by that name, […]
Question I once heard someone (a shtickel rav) say in a speech that because no one is doing anything for older singles and they are delayed getting married, it prevents so many children from being born; he called it a Holocaust to the nation. Older singles are suffering, and it’s related to the Churban that […]
In a recent Dating Forum column of the 5TJT (July 14, 2023), I published a letter (and my response) from a woman who wrote that she had been verbally and financially abused by her husband during the pandemic, and at the suggestion of her friend, had reached out to an organization that helps abused women. […]