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'Our Friend Never Stops Texting!'

'Our Friend Never Stops Texting!'

Embrace the lost art of calmly addressing a problem without any harshness or drama.

Heather Havrilesky
Aug 06, 2025
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Les Liens de Sang (1960), Jane Graverol

Dear Polly,

Your sharp-knifed responses to readers' crises have shaped my life. Thank you!

Today, I have a question. I'm good (though semi-awkward) friends with my husband's bff. He's a twice-divorced dad, and my husband and I (and our teenage kids) often get together with him and his three (also teenage) kids. My pr…

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