Good Afternoon, Captain A, I'd like to ask you for help. Specifically, I'm having a hard time dealing with my parents. Let me explain the situation. I'm currently twenty, a rising junior in college, and planning to study abroad next semester. The school that I currently attend is around a thousand miles away from home, … Continue reading #283: “How do I tell my parents I’m not moving back home with them after graduation?”
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Reader Question #12: How do I deal with my boyfriend’s ex-from-hell?
Dear Captain Awkward: So, it's like this. I met a great guy, and get this, it's one of THOSE love stories where the girl winds up with the guy she went to school with, it was him all along! Hurrah for fairy stories!!! So, all well and good and life is great with us, … Continue reading Reader Question #12: How do I deal with my boyfriend’s ex-from-hell?
The State Religion is Constant Self-Improvement
Bookslut writes about Judith Warner's column on "yoga memoirs" like she took the words right out of my mouth. "It was with joy/frustration/hilarity that I read, then, Judith Warner's piece in the New York Times about the rise of the yoga memoir. And how it ties into the death of feminist political action, because all … Continue reading The State Religion is Constant Self-Improvement