Column by Carolyn Hax

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared March 13, 2011.

Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend of seven years left me for a 20-year-old (we’re both 26). Throughout it all he has tried to be kind and reassuring to me, but I can’t seem to reconcile that with the wholesale rejection of everything I have been to him, everything I am and everything I could have been. We’ve had a tumultuous history, but we always worked through our problems and I really thought we were going to spend the rest of our lives together. Paid Promoted Stories Pink Salt: The Greatest Enemy of Body Fat (See How to Use) Weight Help Ad is Hidden Please tell us why you hid this ad?

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