Dear Cass:

A note about him looking happy with her on social media- doesn’t everyone look happy on social media, Facebook and such (I don’t have a Facebook account, or the like). I know people look happy in photos, smiling for the camera, and when these photos are posted online, the smile that lasted a moment lasts for days, months, years, for as long as the photo is there.

You wrote: “he’s obviously moved on, why can’t I?”- if you were in a new relationship, you would be moving on too, most likely. A new girlfriend replaces the old (titled or not) girlfriend.

Do you think that your father is jealous of the fact that you tell your mother everything, that you are close to her that way? Do you think he would like it if you told him everything?

anita