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#642: My boyfriend’s toxic friend.
Dear Captain Awkward: My boyfriend, before we started dating, moved in with a friend and his wife. When I came into the picture, the wife excluded me from things and invited only my boyfriend. If my...
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#654 Am I “sex negative” if I don’t enjoy it when my friend brings up sex in...
Hello Awkwardeers, I recently got back in touch online with an old friend who I am genuinely excited to be reconnecting with after more than a decade. I knew him when we were both in our late teens. He...
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#655: Visits With Highly Difficult People
Hi Captain, I was re-reading post #247 about highly difficult people (they will not change!) which I have found very helpful and I have a question. I have a highly difficult person in my life (my...
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#657: Asshole-to-English Translator: “You just like leading guys on” = “I am...
Hello Captain! Something has been bothering me for a long time – I have been accused of “leading guys on.” When this happened in college and grad school, I shrugged it off because the guys who would...
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#670: Dudes who “just don’t form emotional attachments.”
Hello Captain! Here’s a few things about me to help you understand my story. I am 23, a virgin, and have never had a romantic relationship with a man besides a date. A few weeks ago I recently went for...
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It Came From The Search Terms: February (just under the wire!)
Once a month I try to answer the things that people typed into search engines to find my blog as if they are questions. It’s an exercise in mixed results. 1. if he doesnt want the title does that mean...
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#681: Consent Basics: It takes two to decide to be friends and only one to...
Some people deserve to meet the Ice Witch inside you. Dear Captain, I am an intense person! I have grown to accept this. It’s the way I am, it’s not going to change, and I’m in the process of working...
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#683: My boyfriend insists on coming along everywhere I go and constantly...
This is Stinkor, from He-Man. What would the action figure for Clingor look like? Dear Captain Awkward: My partner has told me that he is afraid that he’s boring and that he has an irrational fear that...
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#687: My boyfriend won’t stop trying to fix me.
Hello! I’m struggling to find good ways to respond to my boyfriend when he tells me what I should or need to be doing. I’m in therapy to recover and get to a place where I think that I’m good enough...
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It Came From The Search Terms: The Lusty Month of May
It’s time for the monthly-ish post where we answer the things that people typed into search engines as if they are questions. 1. “Captain Awkward help my boyfriend keeps trying to optimise me. Eff that...
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#720: Planning a wedding when your dad is not a good dad.
CA, I have a great stepdad, and a pretty not good dad. My dad has been in my life the entirety of it, so he’s not an absentee dad- but he’s controlling, emotionally abusive, financially manipulative...
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#741: Visiting parents and a short “Boundary Practice” course.
Dear Captain, My parents keep visiting me over the summer and living in my apartment on my couch. One of my parents is looking for a job both in my current state and in the state of my hometown (where...
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#752: “My roommate is acting like my teenaged son.”
Ahoy Captain, Several years ago my fiance and I started hanging out with a guy named Devon*. At the time we started hanging out with Devon he was having a lot of personal problems. He was living in a...
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#775: “Mom, stop leaving your anxiety-mouse on my doormat.”
Dear Captain Awkward, My mom has always been something of a worrier. Anxiety runs in our family. But recently, there’s been this special, specific little anxiety bundle my mom’s been trying to hand me...
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#778: The crimson flags of unsolicited reassurances.
Dear Captain Awkward, I’m currently over 2 years into a poly relationship with a wonderful person. Our policy is that we’re both free to have casual sex, and we’ll treat dating people on a case by case...
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#790: The Thanksgiving Guilt Trip
Hi Captain and Army, I have a problem with my dad’s girlfriend, namely that she tries to guilt-trip me. My dad had a party recently and at the end of it, as I was leaving, she started talking about...
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#800: F is for “Family, Finances & Feelings.” D is for “Disengage.”
Can I say how much I love this LW’s original email subject line: “A Soap Opera Problem–families torn apart over money, demanding parents, undutiful daughters who are me, sons trying to bear the whole...
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#803: My daughter is dating someone incompatible, please help! (+ “Oh wait,...
Edited to add additional follow-up from the Letter Writer below the jump. Dear Captain Awkward, First off, I want to let it be known that we are a family of Christians; I believe there is only one true...
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#820: “Six months in and things are not good.”
It is the return of the Winter Pledge Drive here at Awkward Enterprises, where I rattle the tip jar and invite people to throw in a few $ if you like what we do here. You can contribute via PayPal,...
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#821: “I want to reconcile with my abusive mom, but it’s up to you, honey!”
Dear Captain, I’ve just spent weeks reading through your archives. I’ve learned so much and made lots of plans for how to better interact with parents, friends and colleagues. One of the subjects I...
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