The Return of the Bride of the Son of the Search Terms: The Merry Month of...
Clarity in relationships, owning your own ambitions, gift-giving, death, love vs. family, and a review of boundary-setting.
View Article#1453: “Is my ADHD ruining my relationship or am I just with the wrong person...
New year, same abuser playbook.
View ArticleIt Came From The Search Terms: Back To December
Old friends, new boyfriends, money, the difference between help and control.
View Article#1440: “Microaggressive grenades are blowing up my friend group. Are there...
Blessings and apologies to The Peacemakers, but I do not have a set of scripts you can use to get your friends to change their entire personalities.
View ArticleIt Came From The Search Terms: Summer In The City
Search terms! Divorce haircuts, flirtation, awkward questions, how to let people down without trying to make it easy, and the single life.
View Article#1437: “I’m afraid of losing myself if I focus too much on my relationship.”
This is a love story like Fleabag was a love story.
View Article#1436: “Why Do Abusers Take Your Stuff?”
Abusers are so boringly alike. #ThisFuckingGuy rides again.
View Article#1434: Balancing wanderlust, reality, and resentment.
Good problems are still problems.
View Article#1433: “My husband says he regrets marrying me because of how much my...
#ThisFuckingGuy rides again. Content note for body policing and mentions of BMI and specific weights, which I would normally redact with prejudice but I am leaving in this time because they are...
View Article#1432: Q: “I know I want to leave, but how do I make sure that it’s the right...
The right time to leave a relationship that's making you unhappy is whenever it's right for you.
View Article#1429: “Is this an exception to the rule, or am I fooling myself?”
Wishful thinking is a powerful drug.
View Article#1425: “I can’t comfort my partner and it’s killing me!”
Will we ever be free of #ThisFuckingGuy? Content note for emotional and verbal abuse and mentions of emotional exhaustion and wanting to die. Nothing like ideation or making a plan, just, it's overall...
View Article#1424: “My sister shouts at her boyfriend and I hate it!”
Reacting or overreacting? Probably depends on what we're reacting to.
View Article#1422: “Should I let my son call my boyfriend ‘Dad’ if he wants to?”
People keep asking me for parenting advice and I keep not quite giving it.
View Article#1421: “How do I be a parent if I never really had one? And how do I not be...
In which I attempt to reverse-engineer parenting advice from all the letters about setting boundaries with difficult family members. LEEEEEROY JENKINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
View Article#1419: “Nightmare! My spouse wants to hire their manipulative and intrusive...
It's not the worst idea I've heard this month, but the bar is low.
View Article#1414: “How do you have a relationship conversation with someone who says you...
'Tis the season to stop making plans around people who are not planning around you.
View Article#1411: “My Boyfriend Won’t Get Divorced.”
We found him! The one "technically still married on paper" guy who was actually telling the truth when he said it was all over with his ex except for the signatures. And then another year went by. What...
View Article#1409: “Help, my best friend and her boyfriend are an incredibly annoying...
Sometimes all you can do about an annoying thing is to plan to remove yourself from future annoying events. More commiseration than advice in this one.
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