Dear Queenie,
My boyfriend and I have been going together for a couple of years and my family and friends like him a lot and are expecting us to get married.
The thing is, I have changed a lot since we first got together and I just don’t want to be with him anymore. I’ll give things a while longer to make sure this isn’t just some temporary phase I’m going through, but I don’t think that’s what it is.
Queenie, I don’t want to hurt him and I don’t want to disappoint my family and friends, but what else can I do?—Fallen out of love
Dear Out of love,
Whatever you decide to do, your friends and family will cope with it.
But it is only fair for you to talk this over with your boyfriend as soon as possible, before he becomes even more attached to you than he already is. Together the two of you can work out how best to handle the breakup, if that is inevitable.