This One Is Easy!

Dear Short Answers: A group of us from my office have been going out to a karaoke bar about once or twice a month for about a year. We all sing maybe one or two songs and just have a good time. The problem is that one of the girls has decided that she is [...]

When Is Enough, Enough?

Dear Short Answers: My husband recently threw out his back and has been barely walking for the past 3 weeks. At first, I waited on him hand and foot and made him rest. He basically sat in front of the TV every minute that he was home while I brought him dinner and snacks and [...]

Membership Has Its Privileges

Dear Short Answers: I have a good friend who, on “moral” grounds, refuses to get on Facebook. He thinks that it is a horrible invasion of privacy. I guess I understand. But to me, that’s a little like refusing to get a telephone. The problem is that he is constantly asking me for updates on [...]

A Matter of Taste

Dear Short Answers: A good friend of mine recently became an “empty nester” when her youngest child went off to college. I encouraged her to develop some new interests and hobbies and she decided to try knitting (I have no idea why). All of her friends were supportive and thanked her profusely for the scarves [...]

Too Much Information

Dear Short Answers: I love the way that my hair stylist cuts my hair – but how do I get her to shut up when she’s working? I feel like a captive in her chair for an hour while she rambles and rants and tells me personal things I don’t want to know. I don’t [...]

MIA

Dear Short Answers: I have a very dear friend who has had 2 children over the past 4 years. Before the kids, we went out together, talked almost every day and truly enjoyed each other’s company. I know that kids will change relationships like this but ever since they were born, that’s all my friend [...]

Looking for Love in the Wrong Place

Dear Short Answers: I work in a very small company,  My boss is a great guy but has a lot “issues” and one of them is has a lot of trouble telling me that I’ve done a good job and that he likes me!  I’m not looking for romance, I swear — but it is [...]

Don’t Start What You Can’t Finish

Dear Short Answers: My wife was very ambitious on my behalf.  It’s a little more complicated than just blind ambition but I did something terrible to please her. Then she did something terrible, and now I feel like something terrible is about ready to happen to me.  Also, I think I am hallucinating — ghosts, [...]

A Wild Guess

Dear Short Answers: My boyfriend and I were talking about our third grade year, and the conversation went sorta like this: He went: “I was ripped, and still am ripped.” I was like:”I went to a public charter school that was taught like a private school, not to mention that third grade academics there is [...]

Good Manners Cover a Multitude of Slips

Dear Short Answers: There is an older woman (in her 70s or 80s I would guess) who I see frequently at the grocery store and other places in town. She is always very well-dressed and seems pretty sharp. The odd thing is that she always introduces herself to me (even though we have met many [...]

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