Dear Gabby (last edited 3/2/09)

How many times have you read advice columnists such as Dear Abby or Dear Ann Landers and didn't agree with their reply?

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1. Estranged husband spreading lies

2. Concerned about husband's looks

3. Mistress' death bed visit is not a good idea

4. Wife tired of husband's sex drive

5. Sidestep friend's divorce questions with humor

6. Husband - son communication problem

7. Fiancé broke no-smoking agreement

8. Friend blindly marrying a jerk

9. Am I bound to give diamond back to ex-fiancé?

10. Shun sister-in-law without upsetting family?

11. Father & daughter communication problem

12. Should I stay in this relationship?

13. Mother doesn't want gay friend at daughter's wedding

14. How to leave impotent husband?

15. Will bisexual husband go straight?

16. Husband won't get vasectomy

17. Telephone solicitor upset about rudeness

18. Grandmother concerned about donor deceit

19. Should I confront wife's adultery partner

20. Friends won't R.S.V.P. my invitations

21. Glove ended up inside man's pants

22. How do I stop wife verbally abusing our son?

23. Mother-daughter quarrel

24. Spouse beating herself up over early transgression

25. Should I tell daughter who real father is?

26. Separated lover hides relationship from his family

27. Son's supermarket temper tantrum?

28. What's wrong with me & my sex fantasies?

29. Advice re: boyfriend's drugs & gay phone-sex hobby

30. Are these responses serious?

31. What can she do about his beer drinking?

32. Upset about office signs at new job

33. Girls team coach requests coaching

34. Father getting married again creating relationship problems

35. Presumptuous neighbor out of line

36. Feeling badly about telling on friend

37. Boyfriend's call interrupts business meeting

38. Mom should keep quiet about sex

39. Guys won't ask me out

40. Dump unfaithful man

41. Sever ties only with father

42. Don't let pre-nup wreck relationship

43. Mother urged to discuss issue with daughter

44. Should I ask for hand in marriage?

45. My sister won't talk with us

46. Happy except for wife's sex problem

47. Boyfriend’s online sex search presents a dilemma

48. Concerns about my boyfriend's friends

49. Boyfriend talked about another woman during sex

50. Son wants us to shun his ex-wife