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DEAR NATALIE: My best friend and I are throwing a joint birthday party for ourselves in November. We are both turning 40 and wanted to do something splashy together. The problem is, she keeps making plans with the event planner without me. So far, she has picked the color scheme, the venue and the cake flavors.DEAR NATALIE: I'm a young, healthy person that works in food service and has a couple of creative side hustles. I'm around a lot of people at my job, although I wear a mask. I'm frustrated, especially as it gets colder out and activities shift to inside, that people seem like they're totally done with wearing masks everywhere I go.May 17, 2023 · DEAR NATALIE: I am a therapist and recently acquired my license so that I can open my own private practice. I have a few friends who have utilized me over the years for their questions around relationships – which was fine – but recently I feel as though a few of them are really stepping over the line and expecting free therapy sessions. DEAR NATALIE: I am the executive director of a well-known nonprofit here in the city. I have a personal Facebook page but don't do much with it because I am afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing and having it reflect poorly on my organization. I don't want to make my page "private," because I make a lot of good connections for the nonprofit ...DEAR NATALIE: My friend’s wife hit on me the other night. It was just the four of us. My wife loves to cook and she was in the kitchen most of the evening. My friend’s wife drove separately — she was coming from work — and arrived before her husband. When she arrived, she smelled like she had been drinking. I offered her some water and ...Perhaps by giving her a little space to share, she may in time confide in you. Please send your questions to Natalie Bencivenga to. [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter. @NatalieBenci and on Instagram @NatalieBenci. DEAR NATALIE: I’m afraid I’m becoming bitter towards relationships. I’ve been single for a while now and having ...DEAR ABBY: I'm the mother of an 8-year-old with autism. A few months ago, I was ALSO diagnosed with autism. While I viewed this news for the most part in a rather positive light, I also have some mixed feelings. The good: This diagnosis finally explains everything about the way I've behaved my entire life. The not-so-good: I feel betrayed to …DEAR NATALIE: My dad just recently got divorced from his second wife and now is starting to date women who are younger than me. This is really grossing me out and bothering me. My dad is 67, I’m 33, his new girlfriend is 29. I haven’t warmed to her at all, naturally, and I think she is with my dad for the wrong reasons.DEAR NATALIE: My sister recently lost her husband and her teenage daughter (my niece) has been very vocal to me, voicing concern about her mother’s mental health. My niece is also reeling from her father’s unexpected death and I am trying to be of support to them both. She told me that she is worried about my sister talking about …Mar 1, 2023 · DEAR NATALIE: My brother was recently diagnosed with a rare disease that will significantly impact his life, and will require a lot of logistical support and care from others, sooner than he expected to need that. Our parents are deceased, and our other brother is unable to move closer to us because he and his husband are caretakers to his parents. DEAR NATALIE: Being a 39-year-old single mom with an autistic toddler is hard, especially because I am at the point where I am ready to date and open to a relationship. I get asked out a lot, and have given a few guys a chance. But after telling them my situation, they get scared off or just lose interest.DEAR NATALIE: My brother-in-law loves to give "gag" gifts for birthdays. He thinks it's funny to buy us whoopee cushions and inappropriately shaped pasta noodles. My sister just ignores her husband, but I told her that I'm not buying him gifts anymore because I'm sick of spending time and money to put into thoughtful birthday and holiday gifts ...DEAR NATALIE: I am in a 30-year marriage and we live apart by lifestyle choice: He won't leave a lucrative job in the ski country and I chose a warm, sea-level climate due to oxygenation needs for me. Plus, our daughter lives where I chose. My problem with him is that as the provider and Mr. Faithful on the surface, he is verbally abusive to me.Jul 26, 2023 · DEAR NATALIE: My husband of six years recently said to me that he would like to be in an open relationship. I came to find out – after much begging – that he is already having another relationship on this side with a co-worker. He’s been seeing her for several weeks. She’s “poly” and totally aware that he was in a monogamous ... DEAR NATALIE: I'm dating someone new and things are going great except in the food department. I am a meat eater. I love meat, I eat meat, I hunt meat, it's my thing. My new partner is vegan and gluten-free. Going out to dinner has been quite a challenge. He came over the other night and we got into an actual fight about where we should eat.DEAR NATALIE: My husband tells me I should "expand my social media horizons" because I only friend people who are like-minded politically. I tried to explain to him that I just don't want to see anyone's crap on my feed that will irritate me and that I use social media to connect with friends. He told me that I am being "small minded."

DEAR NATALIE: Where I work, there is a seriously heavy smoker who, well, smells very bad. In addition to the fact that I have asthma and am very sensitive, it's a really disgusting odor. Of course, smoking is not permitted on work premises, but every break or lunch finds her hastening outdoors and returning smelling even worse.Jun 30, 2021 · DEAR WHAT ARE THE RULES: If you asked your friend and she said she didn’t care, it isn’t really fair of her to go behind your back and say that she actually does care. Her behavior is petty and passive aggressive. I would confront this situation if you really like this guy. Ask your friend to just be honest with you. DEAR NATALIE: My fiancée, Diana, and I have been together for six months and I recently proposed. I gave her my grandmother’s ring, which my mother was hesitant about, but saw how happy I was and so she gave in. Well, I just found out that Diana has been cheating on me … possibly the whole time we have been together.by Natalie Bencivenga. Ask Natalie | January 11th, 2023. DEAR NATALIE: My wife has been ill for some time and while I love her deeply, we aren’t able to be intimate at this point in our lives. The thought of not having sex for months – or even years – has me incredibly nervous. Trying to be proactive, I started looking online for sex dolls.Life Advice / Ask Amy / Oct 09, 2023 Dear Amy: I was with my boyfriend for four years. We lived together the entire time. He was my soul mate and stepped in to be the dad in my kids' lives (I have three children from my previous marriage). I thought everything was amazing and that he was my partner in life. He died two weeks ago.

Nov 2, 2022 · DEAR NATALIE: I recently was diagnosed with terminal cancer and my husband decided to file for divorce one week after my diagnosis. He claims it has “nothing to do with my illness", but I disagree. While we haven’t had a perfect marriage, he was never one to complain about me, as I did everything for him these past 30 years. DEAR NATALIE: I recently entered a casual relationship with someone I work with. We had danced around each other for a while, and we’re both excited to be on the same page with interest in each other. She is my subordinate, but we have both been careful about keeping the relationship appropriate both inside and outside of work.DEAR NATALIE: You are often open-minded in your approach to these questions so while I am nervous to write this, I hope that asking for help may help other people in a similar position. For the past couple of years I was dating a man who was really wonderful at first – we fell in love quickly but I missed a couple of major red flags.…

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