Dear Julie: Advice About Airhead Speak and a Friend’s Questionable Loyalty
DAME’s Friendkeeper gives the go ahead to comment on annoying speech habits (nicely!), and what to do when a friend is still friends with a backstabber.
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Dear Julie: Advice About a Suddenly Surly Friend and a Chronic Corrector
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman separate being nice from taking abuse and gives an etiquette know-it-all the what for.
Dear Julie: Advice About Ditching Home Sales Parties and Difficult Dinner Guests
DAME’s Friendkeeper has a few words for feeding all those friends with so many food issues, and helps a woman extricate herself from 21st-century Tupperware parties.
Dear Julie: Advice About Whiners and Disagreeing with Dog Lovers
DAME's Friendkeeper gets real about a pal's grating voice, and allays another's concerns over her friends' aging pets.
Dear Julie: Advice About Boundaries and Giving a Difficult Friendship One More Try
DAME’s Friendkeeper reveals how to reset boundaries after helping an ill friend, and tells a woman to give her jerky pal a last chance.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Possessive Pal and Insufferable Internet Friends
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman understand her friend’s possessiveness, and gives us permission to defriend a volatile online ranter.
Dear Julie: Advice About Insufferable Significant Others and Flaky Friends
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells us how to graciously handle a friend’s jerky spouse, and not only sheds some light on a pal’s flakiness, but suggests best practices for dealing with it.
Dear Julie: Advice About Friends-Only Nights and Post-Divorce Dating
DAME’s Friendkeeper assures a woman it’s okay to have a “girls night out” without her partner, and helps a newly single woman get back in the saddle after a two-decade hiatus.
Dear Julie
DAME’s Friendkeeper has a heart to heart with a woman being cold-shouldered when she needs her friends most, and demonstrates how to (gently) take down a one-upper.