I dreamt my boyfriend and I were by the pool. I am in a bikini with a T-shirt over it talking to this guy. My boyfriend is jealous that I am talking to him. The guy is asking me why I have a T-shirt over my cute suit. I just blush and say I don’t really have the proper body to be wearing this suit, but it’s all I have. Then I move to another room where someone is with a cute little tiger cub. I pick him up, but he is scared or aggravated and hooks me with a claw.
–Michelle, 37, New Hampshire
Lauri: The tiger cub is aggravated in the dream because you are aggravated about something ... and that something is most likely in the intimacy department! That tiger is your inner sex kitten! What’s going on in your relationship that is frustrating you? The bathing suit is interesting. Do you feel you are settling with your boyfriend because you fear that—like the bathing suit—he is all you have? Your dream may be showing you that there are other men out there that would appreciate you.
Michelle replies: I don’t feel that when my boyfriend and I are intimate he is all about satisfying himself and that is it. I know I don’t want to have to look for “Mr. Right” anymore. I am just trying to figure out if this relationship is worth fixing, but I know it takes two. He says he is happy with me, but I don’t feel he is telling me the truth. I have male friends who tell me all the time how beautiful I am, but to me they are only friends.