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.
Relationships
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.
Is Failure the Secret to Success?
As this writer knows, a seemingly harmless slight from an authority figure as a kid can undermine your confidence as an adult. But she’s working on getting over it.
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.
I Just Can’t Quit You
Breaking up has always been hard to do for this writer. But she's finding the most painful one of all isn't with a lover—but the city where it all happened.
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.
I Was an Invisible Woman
The formerly Hasidic writer used to be covered from head to toe when she went out in public. Then she uncovered her true self.
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.