Posts Tagged: Advices
Turning The Screw
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Ask Polly: I'm Angry At My Mom And I Can't Talk About It!

| March 13th, 2013

Appearing here Wednesdays, Turning The Screw provides existential crisis counseling for the faint of heart. "Spare change for when your stock hits a 52-week low."

Dear Polly,

I hope that I can get this out in a coherent manner because I am a jumble of emotions right now and it's hard to sort it all out.

Some background: I'm 22 years old and when I was 18, my parents separated. When I was a senior in high school, I was looking for some of my clothes in my mom's dresser and found an envelope of printed-out emails between my mom and—get this—my old middle-school teacher. They were love [...]

Turning The Screw
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Ask Polly: I Don't Like My Friends Anymore

| September 26th, 2012

Appearing here Wednesdays, Turning The Screw provides existential crisis counseling for the faint of heart. "Stone soup for your dark night of the soul!"

Dear Polly,

When do you know it’s time to pull the plug on a longstanding friendship that is messed up? My spouse and I have been friends with another couple, I’ll call them Ann and Ned, for 25 years. They were smart and loyal and generous. They seemed to us, at the time, to have it all figured out. What we brought to the party was a sort of easygoingness and flexibility and a sense of fun. They gave us solidity and we loosened them [...]