Dear Judy,
My best friend lost her 12-year-old to leukemia a few months ago. I saw her weep at the child’s funeral, but apart from that, never since. Everyone notices that she is dry-eyed, stoic, and seemingly impervious to grief.
On the other hand, since her son’s death, she has pulled her back out, endured a series [...]
Dear Judy,
I am a freshman at a community college, and I was very disappointed with the advice you gave late last month to some woman who was horrified her neighbor kept going to visit her child’s grave, non-stop. Frankly, I thought you were totally clueless and you didn’t understand the situation or what people go [...]
Dear Judy,
My colleague at work lost a loved one during 9/11 — lots of publicity, TV and newspaper coverage as you can imagine, and all of us commiserated and felt lousy for this person. I’m not going to go into too many details about who this person is, not even the gender or age of the deceased, for obvious reasons.
Well [...]
Dear Judy,
What do we do about a woman who visits her dead child’s grave twice a week? (Sometimes it’s even three times a week, actually).
She happens to be my neighbor and a friend. We live in a small community, so a lot of us know her and knew her youngest child who died in a horrible [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m in real trouble. Some months ago, my husband’s sister died — I’m personally convinced she killed herself, but my mother-in-law keeps insisting it was “a gun accident.” I liked her in a way, but my sister-in-law was a disturbed woman. She couldn’t hold down a job for long, she maxed her credit cards [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009