Dear Judy,
Our father, a drunk, a coke addict, and a womanizer, wants to come to our mother’s funeral. They were divorced for over a decade. We don’t want him around, not at our house, not at the graveside, not in church.
How do we make this clear to him? Or do we have to include him? [...]
Dear Judy,
I run a string of pawn shops, and I’d prefer if you don’t give their location. I had a regular who came in from time to time. He was a crackhead, but every once in a while would sober up, straighten out but never for long, and then one day or one month or other go back again [...]
Dear Judy,
I feel a little embarrassed writing all this, but I don’t know who else to ask. I live in a big city on the East Coast, and in our neighborhood a child — well a teenager really — recently died, and no one seems to know why. We all knew the teenager and his [...]
Dear Judy,
My brother od’d almost a year ago, just as I was starting my sophomore year of college here in Wisconsin. He was two years older than me, and in the family we all knew about his problem with drugs. But his sudden death really hit me hard anyway, mainly because a lot of my [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009