Advice

Dear Twins,

After many years, I have finally found the woman of my dreams, and I want to marry her and spend the rest of my life with her. However... she is profoundly allergic to animals, and I have a 5-year-old German Shepherd that is like a child to me whom I also love with all my heart (animal lovers would understand), My fiancé can't be anywhere near my dog. I don't know what to do. Please don't say get rid of the dog -- there has to be some arrangement whereby I can have both of them. Is that asking too much?

-- In Love with Both

Dear Twins,

I have a girlfriend that I’m crazy about, and I hope to marry when I get out of college. (I am 19 now and so is she.) My problem is that I think she might be getting a bit controlling, and I want to nip it in the bud before it gets out of control, without hurting her feelings. For instance, she always wants to pick out the type of clothes I should wear, which at first I didn't mind because she had good taste, and I had no taste.

But now she talks about when we get married, she'll select the furniture, the house, the car, etc. When I suggest we do it as a couple, she just laughs at me as if I'm a fool. She even wants to pick out the place where we'll go on our honeymoon! I need to have a say in all of this. If it's this bad now, what will it be like after we're married? She's really a nice, loving person, but she has a way of taking over everything!

-- Silent in Salem