Dear Judy,
Everyone in my neighborhood knows that the husband of a certain woman kept a mistress, if that isn’t too old-fashioned a word these days.
He died some months ago, not in her arms or anything (on a business trip in North Carolina, actually) and the girlfriend got a condo in his will, and also some [...]
Dear Judy,
A pretty good friend is the daughter of a famous man who recently died at age 90. I won’t name him: he was in the entertainment industry, and he knew everybody else who was famous too, young and old.
Not a day goes by, that I don’t hear about which famous name sent her condolences, [...]
Dear Judy,
My wife died a year ago. Our grown kids and I have worked together to create a kind of memorial reflection on what she meant to us – we plan to offer these memories to guests, along with food and wine. , commemorating her life — it will be happy and sad at the same [...]
Dear Judy,
Around 10 months ago, I totaled my car. I was given enough to settle what I owed on that car, and also given $4,000 towards a new car — my grandmother did all this for me, because I couldn’t even qualify for a loan at the time. The total came to $20,000.
She told me [...]
Dear Judy,
My brother-in-law is at home under hospice care. He has prostate cancer which metastasized to the bone. For the past year he’s been in severe pain all over his body.
However — in the last week he’s had no pain at all! No meds have been added or changed. He is very weak and tired [...]
Dear Judy,
Maybe this is just me, but I can’t really believe so many people are thinking and asking questions about dying or death. At least it seems that way from the number of people who write you each week, and then the others who comment on whatever advice you give.
Personally, I don’t want to think about [...]
Dear Judy,
My mother sees ghosts, speaks to dead cats, and has lied for years about a twin brother I supposedly had, who also supposedly died. No such twin ever existed, according to my father, but for years I believed her and felt guilty I survived. Our family is distraught and furious over all these lies and [...]
Dear Judy,
I came across your website by accident, but I guess it’s just as well. I’m in law enforcement, living in the South. I won’t say where. We had an election going on here in our county, only it’s been disrupted by the death of one of the candidates.
To keep it short: he died in a [...]
Dear Judy,
We lost my husband 2 weeks ago unexpectedly at age 44. He was a wonderful man and loved by the community (and by me – and our 4 kids and 2 dogs).
Folks in the community want to do so much for us. One idea is a golf benefit and others just want to offer money straight-out [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m not God, but I suspect my daughter, who is just 39, is terminally ill. Her ovarian cancer — cured we thought 2 years ago — has apparently spread. She has also had a double mastectomy. Nothing has worked. She is taking heavy pain medication.
She and my son-in-law have 2 children, 9 and 11. I [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009