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#555: Carts, Horses, and the Order of Operations
Dear Captain Awkward: How bad is it to get involved with a new person when I am still very hung up on someone else? Someone not available to me, but still part of my friend group? Even though I am...
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#557: That’s just one dude’s opinion/Annual reminder that “why did you break...
Dear Captain Awkward: About two weeks ago, I was broken up with by my then-boyfriend of nearly two years, P. I did not see it coming, at all. A week before, he had invited me to his family’s reunion in...
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#559: Does “can’t be in a relationship right now” always mean “…with you”?...
Dear sifters of potentially-answerable awkwardness, I’ve had a lover of the very best kind for the past ~9 months, healthiest relationship I’ve ever been in, and we both had started to talk about, you...
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#560: It’s *your* party, so why would you invite people who put you on edge?
Dear Captain Awkward, I’m organising a house party for my 21st birthday, but I’ve run into a dilemma which I don’t know how to resolve. Backstory is, I was dating this woman, let’s call her X, for over...
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#561: “I had an affair with a married guy three years ago. His wife just...
Dear Captain, I don’t know if you can, or even want, to help me. A few years ago, when I was younger and definitely more stupid, I slept with a few married guys. I was recently out of a toxic marriage...
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#562: My friend and collaborator has gone AWOL on our project. How do I get...
Dear Captain Awkward & Associated Awesome Awkwardeers, My longtime internet friend and I have a serial writing project that we publish casually online for free; we’ve been writing on it practically...
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It Came From The Search Terms, April Showers Edition
Every month(ish) I answer the questions people typed into search engines to find this blog. Except for adding punctuation, I don’t change the wording. Enjoy! 1. “Mother-in-law hates me. How do I tell...
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#565: When your friend gushes about her new boyfriend and all of her “cute”...
Hello Cap’n, My good friend Alice recently got herself a boyfriend. I have two issues with this: 1) Even though I’ve never met him (it’s a long-distance relationship), and she’s never complained about...
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#566: My closest friend broke off our friendship, and now I don’t know how to...
Dear Captain Awkward, I used to have a really close friend who I’ll call A. A and I went to the same middle school, high school, and college, and for several years we talked online together almost...
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It Came From The Search Terms: May Flowers
Thanks (?) to the nice Twitter friends who clued me into this horrible WikiHow on How To Stop A Wedding, or, as @KristinMuH put it, “a manual to help stalkers ruin their target’s special occasions.”...
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Entitlement much?
In this piece at Medium on “Cut-Off Culture,” “Emma” broke up with the author after four months of dating, asked for space, and then when they tried to rekindle a friendship after a year, decided it...
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#567: I want to propose to my dude but the culture is telling me I’m not...
Dear Captain Awkward I have been with my partner for over 5 years now, and I love him to pieces, I can’t imagine my life without him, but I am scared that if I propose to him he’s going to say no, from...
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#568: My fiance finds my anxiety and dream to live “anywhere but here”...
Dear Captain Awkward, When I was laid off from ~the first job I ever loved~ earlier this year, it caused me to put every aspect of my life under a microscope. I graduated from my small town university...
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#569: My parents want to bring a date to my wedding.
Miss Manners is strangely silent on this topic. A grave oversight! Captain Awkward et al, A few years ago now, my parents informed me that they have been swingers since I was 11 years old (over 15...
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#570: Stuff you ask your partner vs. stuff you tell your partner
Dear Captain Awkward, My relationship with my boyfriend is seriously beginning to interfere with my academic pursuits. I met my boyfriend about a semester ago though some mutual friends of ours, and by...
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#572: My parents married a lady, but that doesn’t make her my mom, does it?
Hey Captain: This has been a problem for a while but strangely it only occurred to me to write you about it after your recent post on polyamorous parents inviting their girlfriend to their kid’s...
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#573, #574, #575 and #576: Applying the Sheelzebub Principle
Four letters about The Guy Who Would Be Perfect If Not For That One Dealbreaker Thing. I didn’t publish the 5th of this ilk that came in this week, which was about a...
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#577: Being pushed to forgive because faaaaaaaamily
Hey Captain & Company, I haven’t seen my father since I was 8. We were in contact until I was 16; he was emotionally abusive throughout that time. I have a brother and sister by his previous...
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#581There is no way to know in advance what will happen to your heart & #582...
Dear Captain Awkward, I would like to ask for your opinion of a situation that is currently happening in my life, hopefully whatever you may say might give me another perspective. I have a crush on the...
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It Came From The Search Terms: The Jidoon are on the Moon in June
What search terms are leading people to Captain Awkward? Let’s add punctuation and answer them like questions. 1. “What’s wrong with me? My boyfriend wants to be with me all the time but I don’t.”...
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