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Talking to boyfriend about his close female friends
About our relationship:
My boyfriend and I have been together happily for two years now. We both love each other very much and we're always growing closer. We're planning to move in together in a few months, but for these whole two years we've…
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How to suggest someone to find a hobby without offending them?
As for the topic, if possible I'd be grateful for general answer and more specific one regarding following situation:
My girlfriend has a clinically diagnosed depression (she attends visits with psychiatrist and is taking medications). Because of…
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How can I deny a request from the mother of my girlfriend to tag along on our road trip?
Background
My girlfriend and I are going on a holiday in her native country, about 800km from our current city.
We planned this holiday months ago and we planned to stay for 2 weeks.
Problem
Today her mother asked me out of the blue if she could…
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How can I say I want to be left alone without having to explain myself or lie about it?
In all my jobs so far I have had coworkers who spent their lunch breaks together. At my current job there are a lot of restaurants close and everyone goes there during their break.
I'm a very introverted person, so social interactions can make me…
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Asking landlord to stop letting himself in the house
I live in a large house shared with several other roommates. The landlord has been letting himself in, often without a clear reason. This is illegal where I live. Sometimes I do not see him myself, but he leaves notes for us or makes changes to the…
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How should one respond to trivial, obvious questions?
I'm not sure how to respond to questions where it is obvious that the asker knows the answer.
For example, when I'm the only one in the room waiting for a meeting to start, the project manager comes in and says "You're the only one here?"
I don't…
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How avoid a question about women being loyal housewives?
I was in a country in Eastern Europe. I went to a practice-public-speaking event, as a visitor (to see if I wanted to join the group). After the event, all of us went to a small restaurant close to the event, to eat brunch and drink coffee.
An older…
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How to handle my girlfriend's parents' attitude to asking her for money?
I'm asking this question on behalf of my girlfriend because she's asking me for help but I'm not sure on how to handle this situation.
A little bit of background:
My girlfriend's parents moved from south of the country and came here in the north for…
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Can my sister convey to her womanizer boss by her body language and general behavior that she is not 'available' for an 'office romance'?
My sister recently accepted a high-paying job offer as office administrator in a local firm in our hometown in India, run by a divorced middle aged financial consultant. She is due to join next week but has now been informed by very reliable parties…
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Is it socially acceptable to dismiss a compliment?
Sometimes I get compliments like: "good job on making that website" or that I look nice or something. I often say that much more people look better or I could have done the site better, or even saying that I didn't do a good job.
So my question: Is…
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Girlfriend, vegetarianism and me not wanting to change
Me and Alice are back. This is somewhat related to another one of my questions but more about me this time.
I have planned to visit my girlfriend Alice in a few months, during which I will be staying with her and her parents (they offered), and my…
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How do I approach the issue of someone reading what's on my phone when I'm on public transportation with them?
This is a problem which I face when I travel using public transportation.
I have a habit of checking my messages, call data or Stack Exchange stuff that I missed and other social media stuff while I'm travelling using public transportation.…
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How to turn down 'stay in touch' proposal from manipulative ex-coworker when leaving job/moving?
I recently quit my job, after a three months notice, and I've changed my region of residence (it's like moving to another state in the USA, but the regions are smaller).
The last day, when everyone was saying goodbye all along the day, one of them…
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Handling questions about new tattoo from friends and coworkers
I recently got a tattoo of a semicolon on my wrist. If you haven't heard of semicolon tattoos here is a link to a website that explains it better than I could. The TL;DR is
A semicolon is used when an author could’ve chosen to end their sentence,…
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A server in a restaurant got offended when we addressed him as "Uncle"
I am from India and my experience is that addressing a serviceman in a restaurant as "waiter" is not taken positively. So depending on their age, we usually call them "brother" or "uncle". A few years back, I was visiting Germany and at one point, I…
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