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#672 My friend will hire a babysitter to go on dates, but never to see her...
Hi Cap’n, A very close friend of mine is starting to drive a bunch of us crazy, and we’re not sure we’re being irrational and bitchy about it. Our friend, J____, is a single mom with a job and does not...
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It Came From The Search Terms: February (just under the wire!)
Once a month I try to answer the things that people typed into search engines to find my blog as if they are questions. It’s an exercise in mixed results. 1. if he doesnt want the title does that mean...
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#674: Anything you can do, a dude can patiently and logically tell you how...
Hi Captain, My husband and I have enjoyed three years of wedded bliss. He’s a super-organized, left-brained engineer. I am a right-brained, less organized creative-type. We’re crazy about each other...
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#679: Dealing with unhelpful and unsolicited critiques of your creative work.
Dear Captain Awkward, I’m a journalist and also like to write short fiction in my free time. I feel weird saying this but I guess it helps with explaining the problem: I’ve gotten pretty good (part of...
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#681: Consent Basics: It takes two to decide to be friends and only one to...
Some people deserve to meet the Ice Witch inside you. Dear Captain, I am an intense person! I have grown to accept this. It’s the way I am, it’s not going to change, and I’m in the process of working...
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#683: My boyfriend insists on coming along everywhere I go and constantly...
This is Stinkor, from He-Man. What would the action figure for Clingor look like? Dear Captain Awkward: My partner has told me that he is afraid that he’s boring and that he has an irrational fear that...
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#687: My boyfriend won’t stop trying to fix me.
Hello! I’m struggling to find good ways to respond to my boyfriend when he tells me what I should or need to be doing. I’m in therapy to recover and get to a place where I think that I’m good enough...
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It Came From The Search Terms: April Is The Cruelest Month
Time for (mostly) monthly feature where we answer the things people typed into search engines as if they were questions. 1. “How to tell my parents I’m moving out.” You have found the place, yes? You...
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#690 and #691: One of life’s saddest lessons is that people don’t have to be...
Letter Writers, no one is topping “Dear Sugar” on this topic. Read that and you’re probably good. But just in case, your letters and some answers are below. Dear Captain Awkward: I’m 29 and female, and...
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#700: Asking for help vs. maintaining privacy and a safe space when you’re in...
Dear Captain and Crew, Ten weeks ago I asked my husband why sex and some other things hadn’t happened on a long weekend at home. He out-of-the-blue responded, “I’ve been thinking I don’t want to be...
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#702: “I told my best friend about my romantic feelings, and she doesn’t...
Dear Captain Awkward: I am 13, and the girl I love is 16. I have a higher IQ than I should at this age, so believe me I am 13. Anyways, I have been talking to this girl for almost 3 years. Throughout...
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#723: “Am I immature if I think my boyfriend is too intertwined with his ex?”
Ahoy, Captain Awkward! Looking for some relationship advice and hoping you can help. Background: Boyfriend and I met through a mutual friend, I’m in my mid 20s(first serious relationship) he’s in his...
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#732: “My daughter’s partner ‘doesn’t fit in with our family’.”
Lady Sybil and Branson the Chauffeur from Downton Abbey Dear Captain Awkward, I just read your response to the question of how a person can deal with disapproving parents in the relationship area. It...
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#734: “I’ve just figured out that I’m asexual. How do I hook my husband up...
Hiya Captain, I wrote in a while ago with a fairly incoherent question of the “I think I’m maybe asexual but I already got married with the usual implicit understanding that sex would be part of the...
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#737: “How do I explore bisexuality from inside a committed relationship with...
Dear Captain, I think I’m bisexual. The problem is I’m not sure and I’m interested in finding out, but I’m in a committed yet rocky relationship with a man in the gay-unfriendly Midwest. I made an...
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#738: Analysis paralysis, crushes, ethics, and risk.
Dear Captain Awkward, My question is one of those probably 60% of the people in the room have, but no one wants to ask. (I did check archives but didn’t find a close match.) The top line question is,...
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#740: Roles, evolution, and the risks and rewards of big honesty.
Dear Captain Awkward, I’ve been married to my husband for five years, and in a relationship with him for fifteen years. About four years ago, we became poly with a friend. At the time, she was our...
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#744: Informing someone you’re not talking to anymore about STI risks
Dear Captain & Army, About a month ago, I finally broke things off with a long-term Darth Vader ex I’ll call Joe. We officially broke up last year, but spent this summer falling in love all over...
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#745: Are plans really important?
Dear Captain Awkward, So… Not sure if this fits under relationship advice or under the “how to be a regular human being and not a lizard person” category. I’ve been seeing this guy for the last 10...
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#747: Being the unwilling emotional caryatid in your house
The Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion, Athens, 421–407 BC Shared by Thermos, used under a Creative Commons License. Dear Captain Awkward, I am currently having issues with a roommate, who is also a...
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