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September 26, 2018
Should This Friendship End?
In this month’s column Nina makes an unusual call for the end of a friendship. Do you agree that this friendship is doomed? Nina is always taking anonymous questions here. And catch up on all the other letters Nina has answered here. Dear Nina, I’m writing to you because I’m unsure how to move forward […]
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September 19, 2018
After the Urgency
By Elizabeth Neumann Fuller Every other week, an early morning bell sends me racing from my classroom out to the elementary school parking lot, donning my whistle and zipping up my reflective vest en route. I stride boldly into the white stripes of a crosswalk to face three lanes of cars that stretch the hundred […]
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September 5, 2018
Mouths of Babes
By Jennifer Golden Children, especially our own, seem especially competent at guilelessly pointing out our flaws and insecurities. “From the mouths of babes,” is, after all, a proverb for a reason. For a few months not long ago, my four-year-old took to drawing portrait after portrait of her loved ones—stick-figured, crazy-haired, one giant black […]
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August 28, 2018
Talking to Friends About Money
This month’s topic is MONEY MONEY MONEY. Does it bother you when friends ask what you spent on something? Does it bother you when a friend avoids answering a financial question? Please read the situation described in the letter below and help Nina guide this month’s letter writer past all the awkwardness. Nina is always […]
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August 21, 2018
The Friends Who Got Away
by Caryn Berardi I had just found a seat in the spacious hotel ballroom where the conference keynote address was about to begin when, despite an overabundance of empty chairs, another woman sat down next to me. I know professional conferences are for networking, but I usually like to sit alone at the keynote program. […]
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August 15, 2018
Love in the Time of the Garbage Patch
by Sarah Reddick I met her on OKCupid, a dating app she immediately described to me as a “spice rack of dysfunction.” We started talking and didn’t stop for two months. She is forty-five, lives in Nashville, originally from New York City. I am thirty-nine, I live in St. Louis, but I have been visiting […]
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July 24, 2018
You Can Be Friendly Without Committing to Friendship
By Nina Badzin Instead of answering an anonymous question this month, I want to discuss a friendship article from The Today Show’s parenting site that’s appeared consistently on my social media feeds since February. Rachel Macy Stafford, author of Hands Free Mama and Only Love wrote, “Am I Invisible? One Mom’s Pain-Relieving Response to Being […]
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July 5, 2018
Teaching My Son That Great Men Let Tears Fall
by Angela Anagnost-Repke “Will I cry, Mommy?” My son’s voice trembled before getting his three-year-old immunization shots. We sat in the cramped room of the pediatrician’s office—my son, my one-year-old daughter, and me. My son crumpled the paper on the patient bed while I sat in a chair with my daughter in my lap. […]
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June 27, 2018
Why Don’t My Kids Understand How Cool I Am?
By Meredith Bland It took us ten years to get here, but it has finally happened: my kids no longer think I’m cool. In fact, they think I am really, truly, mind-numbingly uncool. It became official this morning while my daughter was looking at her iPad. “Oh, no,” she cried, “Gabe the Dog died!” “Gabe […]
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June 25, 2018
When a Mean Girl Excludes You From a Group of Friends
Our advice columnist Nina Badzin is back with a dilemma from a woman who moved to her husband’s hometown and inherited his less-than-friendly group of friends. She likes some of them, but one “mean girl” in particular seems determined to exclude our letter writer. Nina is always accepting anonymous questions here. Dear Nina, When my husband […]
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