I Had a Mid-Life Fashion Crisis
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Advice
Dear Julie: Advice About Money Borrowing and Sick-Friend Favors
DAME’s Friendkeeper lays out how to ask a pal for a loan and has a woman weigh inconvenience against helping an acquaintance with cancer.
Dear Julie: Advice About Making New Friends and Dealing with Dogs
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells a lonely woman how to meet like-minded folks in her new town and advises another on her pal’s overbearing pooch.
Dear Julie: Advice About an Emotional Threesome and Bowing Out of Baby Showers
DAME’s Friendkeeper walks a woman through the red flags of dating her friend’s still-BFF ex, and how to handle pals’ procreation when you’re childless by choice.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Chronic Regifter and a Too-Drunk Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper tackles the holidays offering help with handling an inconsiderate present giver and a hard-partying pal.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Friend’s New “Art” and a Social Media Monster
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells a woman how to deal with her pal’s terrible painting and helps another keep a real life friendship separate from bad online behavior.
Dear Julie: Advice About Thanksgiving Invites and a Humorless Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells us how not to spend Turkey Day alone and digs into why a woman’s friend has lost her funny.
Dear Julie: Advice About Smack Talkers and Too-Social Butterflies
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells a new student how to shut down some naysayers and helps another salvage her relationship with an annoyingly popular pal.
Dear Julie: Advice About Famous Friends and Unwarranted Judgment
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells a woman how to respect her relationship with a celeb pal when everyone else wants a piece too, and helps another shut down a critic.