Dear Judy,
Lately everyone who writes you seems to feel really guilty — usually not those who are terminally ill, but their so-called friends who are still very healthy. I have the opposite problem. My breast cancer has recurred, twice, and this time it seems more aggressive than ever. I figure I don’t have a lot of [...]
Dear Judy,
A longtime friend is has Stage III lung cancer — and evidently lots of guilt about what she did to my romantic life some years ago. It wasn’t the worst thing anyone’s done to me. She started dating the love of my life, but only after he’d already dumped me.
In fact about 2 months after he dumped [...]
Dear Judy,
I know when you read this, you’re going to think I’m a selfish bastard. I’ve read a lot of your responses to a number of emails to thecheckoutline.org, and that seems to be your opinion of men in general. Anyway, my wife said I should write you, so that’s what I’m doing.
My wife’s father has [...]
Dear Judy,
Although everyone in the family — even our family physician — went to great lengths to describe my wife’s death last year as an accident, I know deep down that it probably wasn’t. She always suffered from low-grade depression, and she refused to see a therapist. Also: after dropping off our two young kids [...]
Dear Judy,
My father, who died 18 months ago of a heart attack, was a partner in a prominent law firm, along with his older brother. I recently graduated from law school, and the idea was I’d start working in the same firm soon thereafter, while waiting for the results of my law boards. Which I did [...]
Dear Judy,
My sister-in-law, aged 50, was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma 8 weeks ago, and now has just a few days to live. My brother and I love our own — and each other’s – children very much, but we’re just not that plugged into each other’s life. Also, we live on opposite coasts.
I’d fly over there in [...]
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