Advice Archives July 2024
Miss Manners: Only invite co-workers if they’re true friends
Dear Annie: Grandma guilt
Miss Manners: My reservation is the most important
Miss Manners: I befriended a spiteful oversharer
Asking Eric: Can’t remember the names of new hires at work
Asking Eric: Undecided about moving back home or staying near ex
Asking Eric: Grandkids are being kept away from dentist
Dear Annie: My husband and his daughter are a little too close for comfort
Dear Annie: I am jealous of my mother
Dear Annie: I suspect my husband of 40 years may be having an affair
Miss Manners: No sympathy for the grieving
Miss Manners: One more way technology makes communicating harder
Asking Eric: Husband only purchased headstone for deceased father
Asking Eric: Wife finds intimacy with an old friend
Miss Manners: Favoritism means nowhere for my daughter to sleep
Miss Manners: You can ask her opinion! She’s still alive!
Asking Eric: Taking the lead at social gatherings while trying to be polite
Asking Eric: Parents won’t stop prying into finances
Miss Manners: Addressing a neighbor’s weight loss
Miss Manners: Seat-swapping request met with sympathy
Dear Annie: I earned my title as a Doctor
Asking Eric: Response from reader to previous question
Asking Eric: My makeup is offending other moms at son’s school
Asking Eric: Grandmothers in competition over newborn
Dear Annie: Planning a destination birthday trip
Dear Abby: Is there a way to suggest a couple host without causing a problem?
Dear Abby: I feel like my husband is my roommate, not my partner
Dear Annie: Should we pay for our friends drinks?
Asking Eric: I ran into a friend I lost contact with and want to apologize
Asking Eric: No one wants to hear traveler’s stories
Dear Annie: Age discrimination?
Dear Abby: I’m irritated by my neighbors, and I don’t know how to approach them
Dear Abby: How do I avoid going wild now that I’m free from my parents?
Miss Manners: Guests stay for dinner and nothing more
Miss Manners: People keep flushing toilets in my office!
Dear Annie: Is it right to curse around children?
Dear Annie: Feeling ignored by my co-workers
Asking Eric: Annoyed by requests from relatives we don’t speak to
Asking Eric: Sisters disagree about brother’s debt
Dear Abby: My husband expects my son to do loads of chores. Should I defend him?
Miss Manners: Enforcing rules of child-free weddings
Dear Abby: How do I handle a delicate situation with a family member?
Miss Manners: I can’t be any clearer about my name
Dear Annie: I found out my son got married from a Facebook post
Dear Annie: I thought we were family, so why were we not invited to the wedding?
Asking Eric: My daughter acts as mother to kids not hers
Asking Eric: Mom disapproves of daughter’s boyfriend’s job
Miss Manners: COVID complicates travel plans
Dear Annie: Friendship whiplash
Miss Manners: Let’s all stop saying ‘I guess it’s free, then!’
Dear Annie: I haven’t met her family or friends yet and we’ve been together for six years
Asking Eric: Stuck in the middle of my adult children
Asking Eric: Destination wedding leaves old friends adrift
Miss Manners: Table manners that can’t be changed
Miss Manners: Remote worker deals with envy from in-office crew
Miss Manners: What is an ‘influencer,’ anyway?
Dear Annie: Living with anxiety as a survivor of trauma
Asking Eric: Wife’s health decline doesn’t faze husband’s outdoor routine
Asking Eric: Father hid son’s affair from Mom
Miss Manners: Honest to a fault
Miss Manners: Post-show small talk awkward for critic
Asking Eric: Sister reacts unemotionally after step-mother-in-law’s death
Asking Eric: Filmmaker may be scamming friends
Dear Annie: I’m missing my husband of 48 years
Dear Annie: My friend is impulsively spending money she received from GoFundMe
Asking Eric: Best friend didn't comfort after fight
Asking Eric: Step-grandmother neglected by grandkids
Dear Annie: How can my older sister evict our younger sister and her alcoholic son?
Asking Eric: Neighbors’ visiting relative indecent with their daughter
Asking Eric: Persistent cough causes social anxiety
Dear Annie: A seed of hope in the journey to sobriety
Dear Abby: I annoyed a family member with a text
Dear Annie: I don’t look like my pictures on a dating site
Dear Annie: My father is getting married to the woman he had an affair with
Asking Eric: Daughter’s father-in-law isn’t helpful
Asking Eric: Friend fears pilot’s lifestyle will lead to divorce
Miss Manners: Not connecting with my boyfriend’s daughter
Miss Manners: Sleepy surgeon spoils symphony for seatmate
Asking Eric: Why don’t people say ‘You’re welcome’ anymore?
Dear Annie: Why did she cut me off?
Asking Eric: Son is underwater helping parents with rent
Dear Annie: My husband isn’t very affectionate
Dear Annie: I don’t want my kids speaking with their father
Dear Annie: Major advice misstep
Miss Manners: No thanks to be found
Miss Manners: Greeting the neighbors is distracting
Miss Manners: My beer needs to breathe, Brenda
Asking Eric: Husband quit but wife keeps drinking heavily
Asking Eric: Feeling unappreciated after gift-giving
Dear Abby: Should I buy a dress for my son’s girlfriend for graduation?
Miss Manners: Cleaning up after ourselves and our guests
Miss Manners: My daughter’s vacation beauty standards
Asking Eric: Former friend can’t shake ghosting guilt
Miss Manners: Don’t mess with naptime
Asking Eric: Close friend misusing handicap parking sticker
Dear Abby: How should I handle money issues at dinner?
Miss Manners: Tipping for car side service
Miss Manners: Addressing an outburst
Asking Eric: Boss won’t stop bringing up age
Miss Manners: I wish my co-workers would knock
Asking Eric: Boss won’t stop bringing up age
Miss Manners: I wish my co-workers would knock
Asking Eric: Concerned my cousin might be getting scammed
Dear Abby: Should I leave my partner that drinks, gambles and breaks promises?
Dear Annie: My son didn’t invite me to his wedding
Dear Annie: Being a teenager who doesn’t use Snapchat
Dear Annie: My friend’s boyfriend is flirting with me
Dear Annie: An unexpected crush
Dear Annie: My best friend is having an affair with a married man
Dear Abby: I am an unhappily married woman with young children
Miss Manners: Neighborly duties on rainy days
Miss Manners: How am I going to meet my next ex-wife working from home?
Asking Eric: Aunt banished to the cousins table at wedding
Asking Eric: How to approach being a humble winner
Asking Eric: Wife never lets me cook our food
Asking Eric: Husband’s road rage is ruining marriage
Asking Eric: Relatives’ theft spoils family gathering
Asking Eric: Wedding invitation received too late to attend
Dear Abby: My friend and her husband don’t have any other friends. Should I tell them why?
Asking Eric: Aunt wants to contact brother’s secret child
Asking Eric: How to improve husband’s turkey carving skills
Dear Annie: I’m married, but have a crush on a co-worker
Dear Abby: I am being isolated from my grandchild
Asking Eric: How to respond to homophobia from relatives
Asking Eric: Self-published author struggles with jealousy
Asking Eric: How to respond to unfit compliments from old friends
Dear Annie: Happy Fourth of July!
Miss Manners: How to stave off engagement questions
Dear Annie: The struggle of single parenthood
Asking Eric: Switching from part-time to full-time work
Miss Manners: Hostess does the most-est and wants guests to notice
Asking Eric: Friends act like moving away is disappearing
Dear Abby: Should I just stop going to family gatherings?
Dear Abby: I have a friend who complains over and over about the same issue
Asking Eric: Reconnecting with a long-distance cousin
Asking Eric: Couple struggles with different life purposes
Asking Eric: Should I reach out to my ex-wife?
Dear Annie: Maintaining doctor-patient relationships
Asking Eric: What should I do with my decades of diary entries?
Asking Eric: Mom struggles to get over son’s breakup
Miss Manners: Loaning a book with no return
Dear Annie: Setting healthy boundaries as grandparents
Miss Manners: Dowed exes want to reunite
Dear Annie: How to handle a business dispute
Ask Amy: The last column, with lasting widsom
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