Dear Julie: Advice About Excessive iPhone Users and Kids’ Broken Bonds
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps us deal with an on-the-go Internet addict and helps a woman figure out what happens when her and her BFF’s daughters stop speaking to one another.
Friendkeeping
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 Lazy Friends and Avoiding an Ex on the Internet
DAME’s Friendkeeper counsels a generous plan-maker about friends who never reciprocate and guides a newly single gal through the horrors of post-breakup social media.
Dear Julie: Advice About an Inconsiderate Party-Goer and a Co-Worker’s TMI
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps put the kibosh on a dinner guest’s entourage and tells us how to deal with a NSFW colleague.
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 Mental Illness and Too Frugal Friends
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman cope with her friend’s untreated mental illness and handles a wonderful cheapskate with aplomb.
Dear Julie: Advice About Conspiracy Theorists and the Disappointment of a Digital Friend
DAME’s Friendkeeper helps a woman defuse her talks with a conspiracy-obsessed friend, and susses out why a virtual BFF is such a drag IRL.
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.