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Posted by Meredith Goldstein  June 29, 2010 08:30 AM  E-mail
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Sending your article  Dog days of summer.  Q: This will be the
first time I've ever written to an advice column, but there's a
first for everything or so I've been told. I find the act both
slightly embarrassing and therapeutic. I am currently undergoing
the pain of a 4+ year relationship ending. For a period, I was
deeply in love and could only see the good. We lived together
and even adopted a wonderful little screwed-up dog that we
shared the care of. Now I am living by myself with sole custody
of the pooch. My companion moved out over two months ago but
things started going south slowly long before then. She became
sad and I became withdrawn, perhaps not in that order.  For each
of us it was the longest romantic relationship we have ever been
in, and neither of us has ever been married or anything like
that. When it was good,