#1119: “I can’t trade cat-sitting services with a friend this fall. Is this a...
Good afternoon Captain Awkward! I have a friendship quandary. My good friend Donna and I travel somewhat regularly for work and for fun. She and I are both cat owners and we have fallen into a routine...
View Article#1127: “I think my friend is falling in love with me and I don’t feel the...
Dear Captain, Nearly 2 years ago I joined a MMORPG community for the first time. Through a series of events, I met a guy who has become one of my best friends. We are bizarrely similar at times and...
View Article#1132: “Don’t go on vacation with Nazis.”
We take a break from important kitten content for this equally important reminder: You don’t have to pretend to tolerate Nazis for the sake of faaaaaaaaamily. Dear Captain Awkward, Thank you so much...
View Article#1135: “My dad wants to fix our relationship, and I don’t.”
Hi Captain Awkward, Let’s call me Elizabeth. My dad and I have a strained relationship, and was not really much in my life for a good year thanks to my decision to have little to no contact. Why? He’s...
View Article#1136: “How can I dump my husband’s ex?”
Dear Captain Awkward, My husband (“Mike”) has been married before, but he and his first wife (“Sarah”) divorced many years before I (she/her pronouns) met him. Mike has never given me any reason to be...
View Article#1139: “Mom, you’ve had two weddings, let me have one!”
Sorry about the premature postulation of the draft version yesterday. Dear Captain Awkward, I’ve just said yes to marry my Mr Right. Our friendship is the most important part of our relationship, so...
View Article#1142: “Your child’s emotions are not my child’s problem to manage.”
Hello Captain: There’s a bit of tedious backstory to this, and a few other co-problems (which I think I have some scripts and strategies for, thanks to your incredibly useful archive of GSF/friendship...
View Article#1144: “My best friend is having ex-sex and I don’t know how to support her.”
Dear Captain Awkward, A couple of months ago, one of my best friends (we’ll call her Beth) and her partner (we’ll call him Dylan) broke up. Beth and Dylan had been together for six years and living...
View Article#1147: “My lover wants me to keep our relationship secret from his ex and kids.”
Hello! I’m sorry, this is complicated. I am in my late thirties and have fallen in love for the first time in my life. We have been in love for a year. I believe he is the love of my life, which I have...
View Article#1149: “We decided to leave our abusive ex and move to another state, only...
This letter contains emotional abuse of people, potential physical harm of animals (now stopped/interrupted/not ongoing/the animals are ok for now!, but still I know some people can’t safely read about...
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#1166: “My mom kidnapped my kid for 30 minutes. How fired is she?”
Hi Captain! My quirky, genius, self-centered, deeply insecure, pathological boundary pushing mother took my 5 year old “out” without telling me while we were visiting over the holiday. I didn’t know...
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#1175: “My teenager says their father (my ex of 1.5 decades) is sending me a...
Dear Captain Awkward, My teenager has informed me that their father told them he plans to mail me jewelry for Valentine’s Day. Their father and I have been divorced for nearly a decade and a half and...
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#1182, #1183, #1184: “Do I have to be friends with my sibling?” or, Advice...
Hi Captain, For over a decade, I had a really bad relationship with my sister. She struggled with addiction and suicide ideation and, often, was just plain mean. I enabled her by making sure I was...
View Article#1192: Guest Post “The Accidental Ex-Mistress”
CN: brief mention of sexual assault Hi Captain, A little over a year ago I got my recently dumped, heartbroken self into a casual “relationship” with someone who ended up assaulting me, though I wasn’t...
View Article#1207: “I moved away from a roommate who treated me like her on-call...
This is going to be the first of a two-part series on how people who can’t hear the word ‘no’ are not your friends. Hey Captain! I (she/her) just moved out of a group house. I lived with five other...
View Article#1208: “Question about Mom Friends being too Mothering:” BOUNDARIES SCHOOL is...
As promised…more “If you’re ‘not allowed’ to say no to someone, they are not acting like friends” content. I have kept the Letter Writer’s subject line as the post title so that readers too can have...
View Article#1214: “Kid’s place volunteer won’t leave my twin babies alone.”
Hi Cap! So, there’s this community space I enjoy using with my toddler and babies, and there’s this older lady volunteer there who will. not. leave. the. babies. alone. (With the framing of “she’s just...
View Article#1220: “Is this guy constantly texting me after I told him not to because he...
Dear Captain Awkward, I ( 27, she/her) have an acquaintance (29, he/him) who is not neurotypical (he told me this). His preferred mode of communication is texting and he frequently tries to have long,...
View ArticleIt Came From The Search Terms: Cruel Summer
Hello! Search terms have piled up, let’s do the thing where we answer the search strings people typed in that led them here as if they are questions. Context is missing (by design), so expect some...
View ArticleShort Questions for August 2019: Part 1 of 2
Hello, it’s the monthly feature where patrons of the site can ask short questions. Q1: Thanks to years of reading your blog I finally learned how to call out -isms when they happen! But now I’m stuck...
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