An ex-lover may have fueled the legendary career of Serena Williams. The tennis great recalled a relationship gone bad early in her career in an episode of ESPN’s new docuseries “In The Arena: Serena Williams,” which is airing on the network’s streaming platform. “It was the first relationship that I had ever had but I … Read more
Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes traded in friends for love. The couple and former ABC News anchors revealed on the June 12 episode of their iHeartRadio podcast that nearly all of their former colleagues stopped talking to them after their secret relationship was exposed in November 2022. “We went back to work for two days … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I am a male scientist at a large university. Four years ago, I was surprised to receive an email from someone with whom I’d been friends many years ago, when he was a postdoctoral fellow in our department. We were good friends back then, but we lost contact when he moved east and … Read more
A woman flew 1,151 miles to meet a man she’d been talking to online for three years – but he never showed up and ghosted her. River Blake, 23, flew cross-country from Lafayette, Louisiana, US, to Rapid City, South Dakota, with a one-way ticket to meet her ‘date’. She says the eight-hour flight was paid … Read more
He serves a mean leg of lam. Charles Withers, the celeb chef said to have abandoned his family in Massachusetts a year ago, has finally reached out to estranged wife Ashley McGuire after her Facebook account of the incident went viral this week, the miffed mom of four confirmed. The P.O.’d parent spoke to the … Read more
This philandering chef cooked up a real mess for his former family. A Massachusetts woman whose reality TV chef husband allegedly abandoned her and their two children reportedly managed to track down the deserter in a day thanks to the “power of Facebook.” As it turned out, the scoundrel had decamped to Texas, where he’d … Read more
DEAR ABBY: After 28 years, my wife left me “to find herself.” She says she doesn’t want a divorce; she just needs time and space to work on herself, but she also wants to work on our marriage. She doesn’t want to talk, text or contact me. My question is, how are we supposed to … Read more
DEAR ABBY: For nearly three years, I have been seeing a man who later asked me to move in with him. He abruptly stopped emailing me four months ago. I waited several weeks and then emailed him, telling him how upset and hurt I was and asking what was going on. I found out — … Read more
Romance isn’t dead — but at least one of her suitors is. Lillian Droniak, aka Grandma Droniak, the 93-year-old influencer with 12.6 million TikTok followers, posted a summary of the dates she went on last year. The Shelton, Connecticut, great-grandmother had five first dates — two of whom she met at bingo, one at a funeral, … Read more
A comedian on Instagram is bravely sharing his story about the difficulties of online dating. Earlier this month, Jonathan Ventura, who goes by the username @jonathandoescomedy on social media, took to Instagram to get vulnerable about being ghosted — and is asking others where he could have gone wrong. “So I just left a restaurant … Read more
A man who returned the expensive gift he bought his sister for her wedding after she repeatedly snubbed his longtime girlfriend during the wedding planning process was completely within his rights to do so, an etiquette expert told Fox News Digital. “My girlfriend Naomi and I have been together for over a decade,” wrote Reddit user Recent_Exit1536 … Read more
He rode off into the sunset — without her. An Australian woman claims her American ex-husband ghosted her one day after securing an Australian partner visa. Isabelle Glastonbury, 31, said she met the unidentified Texan in Dallas in 2015 and got engaged one year later, relocating to the land down under in 2018. They cemented … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I dated a guy long-distance for eight months. Whenever he was in my state for work, I’d go see him. Two months ago, he suddenly ghosted me! Two days prior to that, everything was fine. We texted and had a wonderful phone conversation. I’m at a loss. At first I was sad about … Read more
DEAR ABBY: My first long-term girlfriend ghosted me. She died soon afterward, and I’m left with a gaping lack of closure. I’m 19. We had dated for four years and we were best friends. We didn’t live together, but planned to in the coming months. I intended to marry her. One day out of the … Read more
Single people who’ve been ghosted or sent an unsolicited nude photo — you’re not alone. A new poll revealed that nearly half of the single people asked have been victims of nasty dating etiquette. The dating app Plenty of Fish created a survey along with a dating guide in partnership with life coach Michelle Elman … Read more
A Sydney woman who flew to Bali for a first date has detailed the mortifying moment she realized she had been stood up. Jess Austen, 29, hopped on a plane to Indonesia to meet a man she’d been talking to online for several months after he invited her to join him on holiday. But after … Read more
A woman who left her husband of 14 years for a man she only met once has revealed the three words that saw her world come crashing down. Amanda Trenfield has written a memoir called When A Soulmate Says No, detailing how she met a man at a group dinner during a work conference she attended with … Read more
The first time I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I only told a handful of people. I was faced with the decision between a lumpectomy and radiation or a mastectomy. I wanted to make this choice with as little “noise” as possible. Instead, I wanted to rely on the guidance of my doctors, my intuition, … Read more