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Category: Customs, Etiquette and Manners
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A Neighbor Child Visits Us With Empty Pockets and His Hand Out. Help!
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An older couple is happy to host a teenage neighbor at their lake house, but they have begun to resent his easy acceptance of gifts and presumptuous restaurant orders.
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My Partner’s Irresponsible Mother Asked Him to Guarantee Her Lease. Help!
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A reader worries that her partner could be jeopardizing their future life together by helping out relatives he knows to be terrible with money.
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Can I Ask My Parents to Put Away Their Phones When They Watch My Children?
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A reader dreads the thought of chiding his parents for their distracted babysitting, but he has already noticed the potential risks of their inattention.
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My Mother Won’t Reschedule Her Elective Surgery So I Can Be There. Help!
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A reader wants her mother to pick another date for a hip-replacement surgery so that she doesn’t have to miss an important work conference. Cue the cutting email from Mom.
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Can I Skip My Niece’s Graduation to Avoid the Politics?
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A reader wants to be a supportive aunt at the Naval Academy commencement, but the prospect of political speeches has her gritting her teeth.
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My Parents Are Obsessed With Food and Weight. Help!
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A reader fears that her parents’ decades-long food fixation could jeopardize her efforts to keep her own eating disorder under control.
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My Sister Excluded Me From Our Family Holiday. Help!
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After years of having to miss faraway holiday get-togethers, a reader was finally denied an invitation to his sister’s Easter gathering altogether.