Hi Captain: There is this totally awesome and beautiful girl in some of my graduate classes. I sat next to her and before I knew it we started texting a lot and it looked like it was leading to something…
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#475: How do I help my lonely husband make some friends? and #476: Tired of the same old college scene
Dear Captain Awkward, Over the last four years, my husband and I have narrowed our social circle to where we only have a few friends who we see regularly, most of whom were initially my friends rather than his. But…
Tagged with: Friendship, New People, Relationships
Posted in Friendship, Overthinking It, Reader Questions, Social Interactions
Posted in Friendship, Overthinking It, Reader Questions, Social Interactions
#470, #471 and #472: Correcting Names
Dear Person, My friends have gotten into the habit of calling me by a nickname, which would be wonderful if they had asked first, but otherwise I’m okay with it. The problem comes when they introduce me to people using…
Tagged with: Boundaries, names, nicknames, speaking up
Posted in Families, Friendship, Manners, Reader Questions
Posted in Families, Friendship, Manners, Reader Questions
#466: Possessive friend is weirding me out/A constructive conflict review.
Dear Captain Awkward, My friend N alternately acts like she feels threatened by me and like she wants to be me. It’s really creepy but I don’t know how to address it without sounding jealous and paranoid. I met her…
Tagged with: Friendship, jealousy, The African Violet of Broken Friendship
Posted in Friendship, Manners, Reader Questions, rejection, Relationships
Posted in Friendship, Manners, Reader Questions, rejection, Relationships
#454: Darth Vader is a tricksy hobbit.
Hello, Citizens of Friday. First order of business, this great nod of solidarity for the socially awkward from Dorothy Parker. ”Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”…
#446: The Territorial Friend and The Pollyanna Defense
Dear Captain Awkward, Three years ago I picked a new flatmate from a bunch of randoms-off-the-internet and this person turned into one of my besties. Even better, she had a bunch of wicked-cool friends who are now my friends as…
Tagged with: Friendship, Mean Girls, Roommate
Posted in Friendship, Geek Social Fallacies, Manners, Reader Questions, Social Interactions
Posted in Friendship, Geek Social Fallacies, Manners, Reader Questions, Social Interactions
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