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A Guide To Keeping New Year's Resolutions

The New Year is quickly creeping up on us. Do you have a New Year’s Resolution? Well, if you’re like most Americans (88 percent in 2001 according to a General Nutrition Centers poll), you have at...
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Community After Tragedy

One Friday in November, I began a journey from New Jersey to downtown New York City to visit old work friends. It was my first visit since the tragic September 11th attack. Although I've traveled...
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A Preexisting Condition

Direct Answers - Column for the week of December 2, 2002

I am 25 and have been married for two years. This past August I began an affair with my husband's younger brother. I feel just...

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Pride Goeth…

Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 25, 2002

My boyfriend's daughter (I'll call her Mary) got married six months ago. She is 19 and pregnant. My boyfriend (I'll call him John)...

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No Class

Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 18, 2002

The manager of a very posh store in New York City has this weird habit of touching her employees' lunches. She has picked up...

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A Pickup Line

Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 11, 2002

I just started a wonderful new job. The atmosphere is laid-back, and the people alone make the place fantastic. The best of them all...

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Neither A Borrower…

Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 4, 2002

I moved from Los Angeles to Europe with my husband and children. My sister's husband left her with three children. She sent an e-mail...

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A Plan Of Attack

Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 28, 2002

I feel I am at the breaking point. I work at a small school and run the office. I do all the financials, secretarial work, and...

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Playing With Fire

Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 21, 2002

I am a stay-at-home mom, 24, married to my husband, 26, for six years. He has a problem chatting with young girls online.

I have...

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Maternal Instincts

Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 14, 2002

I am a woman in her mid-60s whose husband passed away, and I do not want to enter into a relationship with another man. I have no...

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