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#466: Possessive friend is weirding me out/A constructive conflict review.
Dear Captain Awkward, My friend N alternately acts like she feels threatened by me and like she wants to be me. It’s really creepy but I don’t know how to address it without sounding jealous and...
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#467: How do I help my partner communicate better with his family?
Dear Cap’n, I don’t know how best to help my DH. This message follows us having a long, slightly drunk but happy and loving chat about his life. DH’s family history is complicated. His upbringing...
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#468 and #469: “Hey, knock it off”, or, Constructive Conflict, Continued.
Jolly’s great comment to Monday’s post is going to be very relevant to these seemingly very different questions: “You also don’t necessarily have to bring some of these things up in one big...
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#473: A gentle breakup is still a breakup.
Dear Captain Awkward, A few months ago I started seeing a kind, wonderful man who I fell hard for, quickly. We had a wonderful time together and he was very involved in planning dates, initiating...
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#483: Dealing with a friend’s caustic partner
Captain Awkward, I have a very, very good friend who has been with me for many years. She’s helped me when I’ve been suicidal (even so far as taking me to the clinic), she shares my nerdy interests and...
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#486: Feeling lonely in a relationship and worried about self-sabotage
Reader Alex T. sent me this excerpt from a post at www.verysmartbrothas.com about breakups. I like it. All of the blogs, books, podcasts, Nightline specials, panels, interviews, features, shows, oral...
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#490: Should I tell my friend her boyfriend is cheating on her? She has a...
Hi Captain, I have a friend, we’ll call her Jane. Several years ago, when I caught her first boyfriend making out with another girl at a party, I told her about it (I figured if my house was on fire,...
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#492: I am so not into the whole dating thing. How do I talk about that with...
Dear Captain and co. This is a not-quite problem that’s separated into two parts. I’m not interested in sex or dating/relationships. I’m not comfortable at the moment categorising myself as...
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Chosen Family Open Thread
Yesterday I celebrated WifeDay, a roving holiday where my friend T. and I go to lunch and otherwise love on each other. (Commander Logic and I also have this holiday, we just refer to it in text...
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#494: I want to try ALL THE THINGS with my new sex partner, but I’m worried...
Dear Captain Awkward: Hi, Captain! Here’s a happy question for you. I recently started dating and sleeping with a really awesome man. We have great chemistry, he’s very respectful, and I’m having a...
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Guest Post #496: I No Longer Have Pantsfeelings for the Only Partner I’ve Had
[Content note: purity culture] Dear Captain Awkward, I am married. My husband is a very lovely, supportive man, very devoted and considerate, and a great father to our small child. We’ve been together...
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Heartbreak Open Thread
We got the following request yesterday: Hello Awkward Helpers! I am thinking that I (and maybe others?) might benefit right now from an open thread on coping with acute romantic loss and heartbreak,...
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#498: Transitive Opinions, Discretion, and Drama
Dear Captain Awkward: An ex (X) asked if I had reservations about X hooking up with a mutual acquaintance (A). I told X my reservation/opinion. X then told A what I said. A is angry and upset On one...
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Guest Post #499: Muddling Productively In Search of Romance
Dear Captain Awkward, I have a pretty simple question. How do I nurture my own sense of romance? A bit of background: I’m a twenty one year old queer girl. I was born in Mississippi, though I spent my...
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#503: Education, love, money, family, foreign adventures & THE ENTIRE FUTURE...
Spoiler: Whether or not she caught the train, her shit would have worked out pretty okay in the long run. Hi Captain Awkward, My mother and my boyfriend HATE each other. I know you’ve heard this all...
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#505: Star-crossed or just incompatible? + Summer Pledge Drive Begins
Twice a year, I hold out the tip jar and invite readers who are able to kick in a few $ to support the site. If you like what you read here and find it helpful, please consider making a (non-tax...
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Open Thread: Long Distance Relationships (+ Pledge Drive Day 2)
Photo credit: J. Peepas, Paris, 2008 It’s Day 2 of the Pledge Drive. Thank you so much for the kind donations so far! One of the things I plan to do with the donations is save for a new computer. Two...
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#506 & #507: It is 2fucking0fucking1fucking3, so why is it so hard to divide...
Is this what you are looking for in a spouse? If so, rethink your entire personality. Things you should know going in: This is a two-for. I am not calm, collected, or unbiased about this topic. #506...
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Your friend isn’t “a batshit harpie,” she’s sad and handling it very badly.
Jezebel has an advice column about friendship, which I wish was not called “Friendzone.” The first and third responses in last week’s post were pretty spot on, but the second letter, here, about the...
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Meetups Galore + #515: Easygoing vs. Picky: How to fight with your friends.
Hello! First, a reminder from Kate in Bristol: Hi all – just a quick reminder that Bristol UK is meeting up at The Canteen on Stokes Croft this Saturday, from 11am to 3pm. I will be wearing a rainbow...
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