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How do I decline a friend wanting to become roommates?

My fiancée and I are planning on moving out of our parent's house and into an apartment of our own after our wedding. During a conversation with a close mutual friend of ours, it was brought up that he will be going to school very near the city we…
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How can I tell my boss that the informational inaccuracies aren't my fault without sounding whiny?

I run a report that requires significant data entry and is used in determining overarching financial decisions within our company that was created by some consultants I was hired to replace. I have no background in accounting, but was hired as a…
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How do I gently communicate to someone online that I'm not open to supporting them?

I know someone from a chat service I am on. We are not close friends; in fact, we barely know each other. We ended up in a brief private message. In a tangent related to what was being discussed in chat at the time, in which I was only vaguely…
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How to communicate to an Open Source Project that I want more responsibility after being rebuffed every time I try to help?

I mostly work alone on my own programming projects as a hobby, but often come up with projects that are far too big to work on myself, so a few months ago I started searching for open source projects on GitHub that matched my interests and skill…
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How to interact with a friend dating my ex-girlfriend when we hang out?

Background Jane and I belonged to the same group of friends since childhood. In this group, we all used to hang out, go camping, all kinds of stuff. Despite all of us eventually growing older and parting ways, most of us stayed friends and would…
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How do I get my father back after an extended time of being estranged?

Long story short: my mother recently has been diagnosed with an inoperable malignant brain tumor and her biggest wish is for us to mend our relationship before she dies. My father and I have had multiple falling outs and fights...all of which were…
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Confronting sibling over unappreciated effort

I'm in my late twenties and my brother is in his late teens. He has always been a skinny kid so recently we decided that I would be taking over his physical development. He explicitly told me that he wanted to get bigger and would be willing to…
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How do you politely deal with someone who avoids written communication?

My cousin wrote a complaint to the tax department as her tax was wrongly calculated, but the department replied by telephone. As every employee with whom she has spoken all gave conflicting and contradictory information, she needs written…
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How can I tactfully talk to a CFO about preventing scope creeping?

I'm frequently tasked with working on projects that need fleshing out in order to become viable products. For instance, when creating reports for a specific cost analysis, changes are usually needed in order for the end result to be usable in…
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How to reply genuinely (but politely) to apologies for lateness?

How can I answer tactfully but sincerely latecomers' apologies for being (very) late? I refuse, and it appears insincere, to answer with phrases that forgive them (e.g. It's nothing/all right. Don't worry about it.), when their lateness are not…
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How to tell someone that he should go on vacation without his possessive girlfriend

My best friend and I (both male) were debating about going on a weekend trip next week. After a long talk, he finally said that he should leave his girlfriend for 2 days to be with me. Just one hour after that, his girlfriend said that it's been 3…
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How to address a friend's misunderstanding of an intention?

One of my friends often misunderstands many friendly gestures. One of them is an offer of mint candy is taken as we are suggesting he has bad breath. It seems he suspects such gestures have a hidden motive, and conversations to have hidden…
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How to approach the owner's handicapped son about him distracting our work?

For the last two weeks, our owner's son has been coming to our office daily to "work". However, he can't work. There's no work that can be assigned to him, and he is constantly distracting us by demanding more work (which he actually can't do). He…
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How to determine if someone is deliberately ignoring my messages?

Sometimes on either snapchat or skype (or any other instant messaging software) I will not get a reply to my message. It can be a normal message or question, and then they simply won't reply. I typically just try and think of another sentence to add…
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When is it appropriate to look into people's eyes while walking on street?

Is it normal or recommended to look into stranger's eyes when walking on a street, especially when it involves the opposite sex? If so how long and how many times you look towards that person without looking suspicious/creepy?
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