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How do I tell my girlfriend to stop guilting me that I don't love her enough?
My girlfriend and I have been together for several months and recently moved in with each other. She moved into my apartment. I have a high-paying job, in fact, I make quite a bit more than her, and the apartment we live in is way under the budget I…
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Telling parents that it's okay if their child doesn't kiss me
I have cousins who both have children. Whenever we see each other, my cousins always told their children to "go kiss Ælis" but the children are sometimes reluctant to kiss me (which I can understand). Nonetheless, the parents push the kids to kiss…
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How can I ask someone in a quiet library to stop clearing their throat?
I have ADHD and as such have terrible difficulty maintaining my concentration, especially when working on homework. Because of this, I often like to work on the "quiet floor" of my university's library. This floor is basically supposed to be silent,…
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How to ask my friend to tell her support group she was sexually assaulted?
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For the sake of my friend, I want to convince/ask her to talk to her extended support group about the situation. This is a decision she has to make herself and I really think that it’d help to disclose it to her family.
I am not asking for…
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How to offer helping my friend with planning my meal at his wedding without coming across as rude?
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I'm at this stage of life where quite a good part of my friends are getting married. Yay!
Next Summer I'll attend two different weddings. The thing is, I have dietary restrictions (I'm vegan) and although there is a vegan option planned for…
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How to designate, that I'd prefer having a conversation in english, when someone aproaches me in my native language?
Given an international (work-) environment, I have plenty of coworkers1 not speaking German. It happened already many times to me, that I was having a English conversation with someone not speaking German. Almost always, when a coworker approached…
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How do I share I don't wish to be a part of the superstition without insulting anyone?
Quite a big life event happened in my family recently, causing some conversation about a family curse to come up. My niece and nephew brought this old tale up again, and my mom seems to highly believe in this.
I know my mom will want to discuss this…
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How to tell a friend that she is too loud when she speaks without offending?
My partner and I hang out with another couple. We share many interests, have children of the same age, and are fairly compatible in many aspects. So all is fine for spending several hours together whenever we meet.
The problem is that our female…
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How can I politely tell a colleague that mocking someone's clothes in front of everyone is rude?
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We are working in a open space, in France, for a big company and there is this colleague that has been working here for 15 years that enjoy mocking everyone for everything. It seems that he just wants to be the "funny one" but sometimes…
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How do I tell the creator of a Discord server that they're "formalizing" everything too quickly?
A few months ago, a Discord server was created for a site that didn't have its own livechat, but a lot of the members wanted one.
So this one girl creates a Discord server, and invites a bunch of us into it. There were about 25 members within the…
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Roommate on my wifi
I'm living in an apartment with a roommate. When they first moved in they didn't have a router and therefore could not connect to the internet. I offered to let them connect to my wifi until they were able to purchase a router. 2 months later they…
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Dealing with people ignoring me, or talking over me
I have a group of friends, and we have been together for a while now where we meet once or twice a week, to play games together - D&D, board games, etc. It's a social event.
However, especially lately I've noticed that one person has started to lean…
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How to explain to someone that I'm not who I said I was?
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I have an alternate personality. Not like a medical disability (though it could be argued that the paranoia that started this is a problem), but like a fake life story I use when I need to participate somehow but don't want to use…
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How can I counter the argument "there is better and there is worse"
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The context is "in general" but let's say that we are in any discussion that imply improving something in my life. So it can be with a GF, with a parent, my manager etc.. The argument "there is better or worse" does not take in consideration…
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Why is this random act of kindness considered offensive flirting?
In Offering to share my umbrella without sounding creepy op, assumed to be a man, shares an umbrella with a woman because it's raining a lot. For some reason good portion of the response to this question revolves around flirting.
Given the…
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