Dear Gabby (6/9/08)
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read advice columnists such as Dear Abby or Dear Ann Landers and didn't
agree with their reply?
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Estranged husband spreading lies / Husband mirroring wife
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Concerned about husband's looks / Withholds in the way of truth
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Mistress' death bed visit is not a good idea / Consequences of deceit
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Wife tired of husband's sex drive / Time for next level of intercourse
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Sidestep friend's divorce questions with humor / Humor masks anger, perpetuates blame
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Husband - son communication problem / Lost ability to communicate with my husband
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Fiancé broke no-smoking agreement / Can't inspire fiancé to opt for health
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Friend blindly marrying a jerk / Invited to doomed wedding
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Am I bound to give diamond back to ex- fiancé? / Stuck in my survival mind
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Shun sister-in-law without upsetting family? / Pot calling kettle black
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Father & daughter communication problem / Same barriers with husband as with father
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Should I stay in this relationship? / Is boyfriend mirroring me?
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Mother doesn't want gay friend at daughter's wedding / Daughter foments bigoted fight
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How to leave impotent husband / Deceptor not safe space for truth to be told
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Will bisexual husband go straight? / How did I cause husband to deceive
me?
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Husband won't get vasectomy / Upset with husband's plans for widowhood
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Telephone solicitor upset about rudeness / Rude behavior begetting rude behavior
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Grandmother concerned about donor deceit / My child mirrors my dishonesty
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Should I confront wife's adultery partner / Co-conspirator blames wife
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Friends won't R.S.V.P. my invitations / "Friends" are communicating something
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Glove ended up inside man's pants / Delightful anecdote
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How do I stop wife verbally abusing our son? / Husband needs therapy immediately
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Mother-daughter quarrel / Daughter creates mess and blames mother
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Spouse beating herself up over early transgression / Cheater still practicing deceit
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Should I tell
daughter who real father is? / Should I teach daughter to deceive, or what?
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Separated lover hides relationship from his family / Should I keep rewarding his deceit?
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Son's supermarket temper tantrum? / Son mimics how I use anger to get my way
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What's wrong with me & my sex fantasies? / Should I continue hiding worries from my husband?
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Advice re: boyfriend's drugs & gay phone-sex hobby / Not safe space for boyfriend to tell truth
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Are these responses serious? / Dear Gabby reader asks question
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What can she do about his beer drinking? / Wife's addiction feeds husband's
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Upset about office signs at new job / Withholds destroying relationships
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Girls team coach requests coaching / Coach unconsciously seducing young girls
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Father getting married again creating relationship problems / Unconscious saboteur
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Presumptuous neighbor out of line / Possible karmic ultimatum
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Feeling badly about telling on friend / Integrity at work
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Boyfriend's call interrupts business meeting / Controller upset with controller
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Mom should keep quiet about sex / Mom sabotages parents of daughter's boyfriend
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Guys won't ask me out / Positionality broadcasting warning signals
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Dump unfaithful man / Con reveals con
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Sever ties only with father / Abusive mother enables father's abuse
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Don't let pre-nup wreck relationship / Next time tell the man up front
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Mother urged to discuss issue with daughter / Get thee to a communicologist
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Should I ask for hand in marriage? / If you have to ask now you are not ready
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My sister won't talk with us / I drove my sister out of our life
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Happy except for wife's sex problem / Blame wife for my intercourse skills
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Boyfriend’s online sex search presents a dilemma / Girlfriend needs coaching
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Concerns about my boyfriend's friends / Abuse addict blaming boyfriend
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Boyfriend talked about another woman during sex / Spontaneity missing from communication model
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Son wants us to shun his ex-wife / Mother taught and rewards blame and spite.
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