Ask Amy: The challenge of maintaining resolutions
Dear Readers: By this time of year, many of us have tried – and already discarded – our New Year’s resolutions. In the spirit of making, keeping, or perhaps restarting...
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Ask Amy: Consumer doesn’t want a chatty trainer
Dear Amy: Sometimes, I want some help with a skill. For example: skiing. My problem is that signing up for a lesson through a resort or a health club is...
Ask Amy: Crush brings forth personal challenges
Dear Amy: Several months ago, I confessed to one of my best friends of 10 years (we’re both women) that I felt extremely close to her and that sometimes I...
Ask Amy: Family friends poach vacation rental
Dear Amy: For over a decade my family and another very close family of friends, “The Smiths,” have vacationed together on our favorite island off the Southern coast.
Ask Amy: Wife is concerned about husband’s pot use
Dear Amy: My 63-year-old husband has a successful career and a loving family. And he smokes pot morning, noon, and night.
Ask Amy: Relationship contract needs redrafting
Like a plot twist from a low-rent Jane Austen novel, these two seem to have developed an actual relationship, writes Amy Dickinson .
Ask Amy: I wonder if they don’t believe me
Dear Amy: After my mother and aunt died, I told my siblings what happened and asked them to please not associate with that family.
Ask Amy: I feel excluded
Dear Amy: Last year, my brother-in-law sold a business. I believe he received a substantial amount in the sale. When I asked how much he had received, my sister said she...
Ask Amy: Wife inspires friends to walk on eggshells
Dear Amy: Over the last three years, my husband and I have enjoyed several camping and mountain biking trips with another couple.
Ask Amy: Single woman has radar for dating jerks
Dear Amy: I’m a 50-year-old woman, and I haven’t had a serious relationship in about a decade. My first two partners (when I was in my 20s and early 30s)...