Tag Archive | The African Violet of Broken Friendship
#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 three years ago. We became close quickly, and she had a crush on me, which […]
#439: The dynamic duo of mansplainers
Dear Captain Awkward: This should be a quickie, at least to ask. I have two friends (they’re dating) who constantly argue with me about the field I’m studying in graduate school. They challenge my knowledge about it, and honestly about most everything, up to and including outright telling me I’m wrong about something I just […]
#251: Breaking up with a friend (African Violet Review)
Dear Captain Awkward, I need a good way to stop being best friends with my former best friend. I don’t want to hurt her feelings any more than I might have already have, but the relationship is seriously not working out for me in a bad way. Brief recap: Former best friend (FBF) was in […]
#244: Playdates and friend break-ups
Hi Captain Awkward, I have been meaning to write you for a long time. I had a really long dilemma that turned into a really short dilemma over the last weekend. Basically, husband and I were friends with a couple (I’ll call them Marjorie and Lance) who were completely stressing us out. The abridged list of […]
#191: Annual reminder time: Get your teeth cleaned. Get your eyes/bits checked. And stop hanging out with crappy people.
Dear Captain Awkward, There’s been something that’s been really bothering me for the last year and a half or so, and I really think you might be able to help. Two years ago I met a cool girl, let’s call her Marla, and we became good friends. So, I’m a 24 year-old gal in college […]
