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Handle This: His Friend Is Draining Your Relationship
If you were put in a situation like this, how would you handle it?
Your live-in boyfriend's best friend just called off his engagement and is crushed. In an attempt to lift his friend's spirits, your boyfriend has been inviting him over a lot in addition to them hitting the town together.
You Asked: I Don't Want My Best Friends to Date
Dear Sugar,
My two best friends (guy and a girl) like each other, but I have really strong feelings against them being together. First off, my girl friend is a man eater. She dates a guy for a week and then when things get semi serious, she dumps him.
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Group Therapy: Being the Third Wheel
In the blink of eye, all five of my close coed friends have started seriously seeing someone, become engaged, or are thinking about getting pregnant. However, I'm the only one in our group completely single. Just recently, we all got together to celebrate my 25th birthday.
Awkward! Roommates Hooking Up
Here's a story that will convince you that living on your own is worth higher rent. A friend of mine in her second year of graduate school decided to move in with two fellow students. After a month of a really fun house-dynamic, the two other roommates started sleeping together.
5 Things to Be Grateful For When You're in a Relationship
Yesterday I gave you five things to be thankful for if you're single this Thanksgiving, but there are plenty of things to be thankful for if you're in a relationship too. If you need a reminder, check out my list below:
- You always have a “wingman” at family gatherings.
- You have someone to share your second piece of pecan pie with.
- You have someone to recap the night with.
- You have two families to celebrate the holiday with.
- You don't have to feel like the third wheel when you're with your coupled-up relatives.
Living With My Lazy Cousin - What Price Is Right?
Dear Sugar
I am curious; how do people split the rent in a fair way when they rent out a room? I have a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment that I am renting out to my cousin. Myself, my husband and my child stay in one room, and my cousin stays in the other.
How to Help Meal Delivery Programs Hit by Food, Fuel Costs
It's easy to see the economic toll on food and fuel in our own everyday lives — but the effect is trickling down past commuters and bargain shoppers to silver citizens who rely on meal delivery programs to survive. Advocates for the elderly nationwide are concerned that many seniors are going or will go hungry soon — and blame the 20 percent increase in fuel and food prices over the past year, as well as leveling or reduced government subsidies and a failing economy.
According to the Meals on Wheels Association of America, nearly 60 percent of the 5,000 programs have lost volunteers, most of whom say they can no longer afford gas.
Friends and Lovers
Dear Sugar
I just moved to a new city to live with my best friend from college. I moved into her three bedroom apartment that she shares with a great guy and for the past few months, we have been the epitome of three's company; two girls and one guy. Since this is the first time I have lived so far from my family, it is extremely refreshing to live in a family type environment.
Handle This: Getting It on in Front of You
A friend invites you out with her boyfriend because she misses you. Even though you hate to be a third wheel, you agree to go because you’re trying to be a good friend. At first things are fine, but as the night wears on, your friend and her man keep getting more and more physical.
The How-To Lounge: Dealing With Your Best Friend's New Romance
We all want our friends to be happy, and often times that means giving them the space they need to live their own lives, but that can be particularly difficult when we've grown accustom to a certain level of presence and friendship. When our closest friends fall in love and embark on serious romances, it can often leave us, well, missing them and feeling a little hollow. To learn ways to aid in this adjustment, read more
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