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How to peacefuly deal with a loud religious group
This problem mostly has to do with me and my family against another religious group.
About a month ago a Pentecostal "church" opened about a mile from our house. We live in Uganda, a very Pentecostal country, with the majority of the people here…
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How to be firm on what I need without causing offense?
At least once a week, I have to get blood drawn to comply with a treatment regimen. I don't have a problem with this. I'm not afraid of needles.
The trouble is that I can't always have the same person draw me.
Someone who has worked with me before…
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How to use Social Penetration Theory to increase closeness with someone who doesn't normally talk about their feelings
I recently heard about Social Penetration Theory where the basic principle is that "in relationships, as people disclose more about themselves over time, those relationships develop layer by layer, with increased amounts of intimacy including…
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How to tactfully ask a housemate to leave
Background: Me and my fiancée have been living together for three years, two in our actual residence. Half a year ago we invited a friend of mine, who was coming to the city we live in to study, to live with us. We didn't set a limit on how much…
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How do I politely tell my coworker he can do the work himself?
My team, A, has set up everything for team B to work with. They can change texts, values, basic colors. The only thing they can't change is general layout or complicated styling. They can ask my team, team A for that.
It so happens to be that my…
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How to stop an unofficial housemate from leaving cigarette ends in our plates and cups?
I'm a student, living with four other non-students, who've all recently graduated. There's one girl, let's call her Sarah, who officially doesn't live here, but effectively does; she stays around all the time, smokes cigarettes and weed in my…
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Dealing with a friend trying to get me a girlfriend
TL;DR: Bruce is pushing for me to enter a relationship with Mary, and I like Mary, but don't want any relationship right now, and I want him to back off.
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Me: I am not interested in a relationship currently, for reasons not pertaining to…
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How to tell someone not to start a business?
My Tae Kwon-Do instructor is looking to make a little extra money on the side. He's hired me to do some graphics work for him, which I'm more than happy to do, but now I'm beginning to wonder if he's done his research.
The area he's looking to get…
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How to deal with person offloading their indecision on their host under guise of kindness?
Hard to come up with a succinct title for this question, but a few sentences should clarify:
My partner and I are hosting a relative of my partner for a 2 week visit. There's a reoccurring issue which is escalating. We'll ask the relative if they…
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How to make someone respect your time when making plans without being rude?
Ok, here is my situation. I met this guy a few months ago, we met a couple of times (not dating, just as friends). We don't talk often but every once in a month or two he suggests that we would get together and hang out.
Almost every time he…
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How can I negotiate following a diet with a reluctant significant other?
I'm 30 and due to being very sedentary, especially with COVID-19, due to being on a medicine that affects hunger, I'm slightly overweight. I'm taking this very seriously as I've never been overweight before and it affects me very negatively toward…
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Friend is very nitpicky about side comments I don't intend to be taken too seriously
I have a close friend who seems to hyper-analyze some things I say and gets upset with things he thinks I didn't give much thought to.
One example is: we were hanging out and talking about card games that involve bluffing, like poker. I said I…
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How to get my wife to accept bisexuality before our daughter comes out of the closet?
My oldest daughter is 19 and told me last halloween that she's bi.
My daughter is amazingly high functioning (mentally, socially, even professionally) but is living at home at the moment because her college is local. After she came out to me I…
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Etiquette regarding borrowing of power tools
Based on television shows, it seems borrowing tools from neighbors is a potential minefield. I need to power wash my front and back porches and the siding of my house. My neighbor has a power washer that he uses to do this on his house 2 times a…
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Is adding “let me know if anything is unclear” to an e-mail really necessary or is it redundant?
(Note that I originally asked this question on the English Language Stack Exchange and was told that it belonged here (Interpersonal Stack Exchange), so I removed it from the EL SE and manually moved it here.)
I am a data scientist and I regularly…
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