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• Will Weight Gain Doom This Marriage? Published 3/14/2012 at 12:22 p.m. 0 comments

  More to Love: "I’ve been married for 20 odd years to a military man who is a Promise Keeper and a fundamentalist Christian who rules our household with an iron fist. He once told me that if I got fat, ...

• Who Should Be Invited To an Unconventional Baby Shower? Published 2/22/2012 at 11:39 a.m. 0 comments

  we would also like to invite my wife’s Kentucky and Pennsylvania relatives and my Florida relatives as a formality, even though we know they won’t attend.

• Dear Pink Lady: Advice for Knoxville’s Lovers From Our Soluble Solutions Columnist Published 2/8/2012 at 3:00 p.m. 0 comments

  Because all advice goes down easier with a drink (even a nonalcoholic one). Especially when it’s picked at random from our columnist’s extensive collection of community cookbooks.

• How Do You Make Polite Chitchat With the Recently Laid Off? Published 1/25/2012 at 11:29 a.m. 0 comments

  "This is a question about what I guess you’d call economic etiquette. What should you do when many of your friends are suddenly either un- or under-employed?"

• Is Her Friend Getting Married For All the Wrong Reasons? Published 12/28/2011 at 12:00 p.m. 0 comments

  "Am I a huge bitch for not being happy that one of my best friends just got engaged?"

• What Would the Holidays Be Without Family Drama? Published 11/30/2011 at 1:08 p.m. 0 comments

  Dear Pink Lady: My brother had an affair and cheated on his wife last year.

• What Does One Do With Unruly Children During Thanksgiving? Published 11/16/2011 at 1:51 p.m. 0 comments

  Dear Pink Lady: I’m hosting Thanksgiving for the first time at my new condo, and I’m very excited about it. The problem is this: My cousins are coming and bringing their children! Generally I don’t have a problem with kids, ...

• How Do You Tell People That You’re Seriously Ill? Published 11/2/2011 at 2:37 p.m. 0 comments

  I recently found out that I have a serious illness. Because all my friends are scattered across the globe, letting the local grapevine spread the news isn’t an option.

• Can This Marriage Be Saved? Published 10/19/2011 at 1:37 p.m. 0 comments

  All we do is fight, over everything. Over who takes the garbage out. Over what movie to Netflix. Over what kind of milk to buy, or what kind of pizza to order. I still love my husband, and I’m pretty ...

• Can She Get Past Her Boyfriend’s Football Obsession? Published 10/5/2011 at 12:06 p.m. 0 comments

  "Last February I started dating a wonderful man, and it seems to be getting serious. When we first started going out, he told me that he was a football fan, but I didn’t think much of it, since around here, ...

• How Will She Get Her Friends to RSVP? Published 9/21/2011 at 11:16 a.m. 0 comments

  Prissy Missy: "This is a dumb problem, I know. But since I don’t have starvation or homelessness to contend with, this is what my life sometimes boils down to."

• In-Law Imbroglio Published 9/7/2011 at 11:26 a.m. 0 comments

  Hating my Home Office: "How much time can I get away with not spending with them?"

• Tailgating Season: Is There a Polite Way to Deal With Road Rage? Published 8/24/2011 at 5:29 p.m. 0 comments

  "As I was tooling down Lyons View en route to work, I was hugged by the car behind me. The driver would not back away, and being a Southern gentleman of a certain age, I refrained from bitch-slapping her into ...

• Can He Forgive His Brother For an Affair? Published 8/10/2011 at 11:54 a.m. 0 comments

  "My brother lied to me for over a year about cheating on his wife, to whom he had been married for almost 25 years and with whom he has a 12-year-old child.:

• Tangling With an Office Oaf Published 7/27/2011 at 1:20 p.m. 0 comments

  Should this reader strangle his annoying coworker? Or at least get drunk?

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