Tag Archive | Advice
#453: Guest Post: How Do I Come Out to My Mom?
I’ll be quick- After getting my teaching degree abroad, I’ve moved back home with my folks because I have no money, and there are no teaching jobs (or really ANY jobs) in my area at the moment. I’m also transgender. I came out to my dad about a year ago while we were travelling together, […]
#233: Open Marriage With the Sea?
Dear Captain Awkward, A week ago, I met this person my age at a sailors’ swap-meet. He was selling a marine toilet, and I happened to need one. I bought it, and we talked a bit about our respective boats, then went our separate ways. But yesterday, a letter turned up. He must have pulled […]
#202: My job is making me miserable, but I don’t know how to quit.
Dear Captain I am a lawyer (not in the US). I’ve been practising for just over a year now, after completing my degree and practical training part-time whilst working for my current firm as a secretary and paralegal for the past six years. I have always harboured doubts about whether I was cut out to […]
Question #149: The Sad Cat Neighbor Feelings Situation
Hey Captain Awkward. I love your column. I think I found it through a link at Feministe (???)in the comments. Anyhoo, here is my problem that I will try to explain as simply as possible: I have had a couple of very rough years. My partner of 15+ years had a horrible legal battle against his […]
Question # 147: “I handle myself badly in large groups of new people.”
Dear Captain Awkward: Most of the people who know me would consider me a pretty outgoing person, and with people I know/am comfortable with, I am quite extroverted. I also think I’m pretty well-spoken and a decent conversationalist when I’m among friends. But, when I’m in a social setting with more people that I don’t know than people […]
Commander Logic tells you how to get unstuck. (Question #146)
Here’s another guest-post from Commander Logic, who has posted here on the topics of long-held virginity, Game-of-Thrones-and-Tits, and finding your people and your place. She was recently seen plying friends with hot stew and beer during an epic showing of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.* —————————- It’s my 35th birthday today, so I wonder if […]
Derailing: How not to talk to people who are telling you something sad.
This post is brought to you by this description of “help-rejecting complainers“, Derailing for Dummies, Holly’s two recent posts about de-escalation, Melissa McEwan’s the terrible bargain we have regretfully struck, Lauren’s recent posts on gaslighting, Martha Marcy May Marlene, a horror movie about what it is like to have PTSD (and deal with someone who has PTSD) that […]
