Dear Julie: Advice About a Too-Spendy Friend and a Selfish Couch Surfer
DAME’s Friendkeeper makes us feel better about being money-conscious and explains how to lay down house rules with a guest who’s worn out her welcome.
Dear Julie
Dear Julie: Advice About an Enabler and a Kid-Hating Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper knows just what to do with a healthy-habit saboteur and helps a mom handle a pal who can’t stand her children.
Dear Julie: Advice About Taking a Guy Out of the Friend Zone and a Bad Borrower
DAME’s Friendkeeper lays the perfect plan for gauging the romantic interest of a platonic neighbor and assures a chronic lender she can say No.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Facebook Oversharer and Unwanted Beauty Recs
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells us how to handle a friend’s social media TMI and put the kibosh on a well-meaning makeover we don’t want.
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.
Dear Julie: Advice About Divisive Politics and Crappy Kids
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman keep the peace over opinions of Gaza and tells another how to handle her pal’s badly behaved children.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Health-Kick Pusher and Fair-Weather Friends
DAME’s Friendkeeper tells a woman how to kick her pal’s pushy diet advice to the curb and helps a newly separated man understand his friends’ apparent lack of empathy.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Too-Eager Acquaintance and a Money-Borrowing Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman navigate her suspicions of a potential pal and tells another how to discuss loaned cash without losing her cool.
Dear Julie: Advice About a Bridezilla and a BFF’s Unexplained Withdrawal
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a broken-hearted woman deal with her wedding-obsessed bestie, and suggests another write off her former like-a-sister friend.