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I Didn't Go to My Father's Wedding. The Reading Asked Who I Was Punishing.

· case-studies
My father got married in the spring, eleven years after my parents split up. I was invited, warmly, with a handwritten line at the bottom of the card. I said I'd be there.
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I Paid for My Sister's Wedding and Let Her Think Our Parents Did.

· case-studies
My sister got married two years ago. She'd been planning a small thing — a backyard, forty people, borrowed chairs — because that was what she could afford, and she was genuinely f...
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Should I Take a Job I'm Overqualified For? It Pays More Than What I Do Now.

· career
An old colleague called me about a role. Below my level, honestly — a job I could have done seven years ago — but at a company that pays properly, twenty percent more than I make n...
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Should I Fire Someone for the First Time? He's Not Bad at His Job. He's Just Wrong for It.

· career
I've been a manager for eight months. I have four people. One of them is the reason I've been sleeping badly.
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Should I Stop Volunteering for Everything? I'm on Three Committees and None of Them Are Mine.

· life
Someone asked me last week to help run a thing. Not a big thing — a community event, four evenings over a month, the kind of request that has an obvious right answer for a person l...
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Should I Go to the Reunion? I've Already Checked Who's Coming.

· life
The invitation came three weeks ago, to a twenty-year reunion at a school I left without much ceremony. I've skipped the last two. I told myself both times that I wasn't interested...
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Should I Charge My Friend for the Work They Keep Asking Me For?

· money
My friend started a small business eighteen months ago. It's good — the kind of good that comes from someone with actual taste doing something they care about. And I've helped her ...
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Should I Sell the House My Ex and I Still Own? He Moved Out Two Years Ago.

· money
We bought it together. Four years later he moved out, and we did that thing that sensible people do: agreed the house was a shared asset, promised to deal with it properly when thi...
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Should I Break Up With Someone I Still Love? Nothing's Wrong.

· relationship
I've known for about six months. Not all at once — the way you know a tooth is going to need work, in increments, each time you decide not to think about it.
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Should I Stay With Someone Who Won't Introduce Me to His Family?

· relationship
Two years. I've met his friends, his colleagues, the guy he plays football with on Thursdays. I have not met a single member of his family.
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