Tag: father knows best

The first key to a successful long distance relationship: set a date in the reasonably near future by which you and your partner will live in the same city.

I’ve never been all that hot at favorites. My favorite book or movie or symphony or Spice Girl changes from day to day.

Next, what is it about your partner’s job that that troubles you? Has it changed since you first got together?

Unilateral empathy requires us to do the difficult work of imitating Christ.

How is it, we wonder, that there is a website that talks all the time about religion – one of the three subjects that Miss Manners advises us to stay well away from if we want to have a happy dinner party — and yet the comments that you post on it are overwhelmingly wise, generous, and kind?

Lately, AJ, I’ve been wondering if the work of learning how to gracefully manage transitions isn’t actually a whole lot bigger than the parent-child relationship, if it isn’t actually the work of a lifetime.

My educated guess, LC, is that you are writing in the hopes that someone will give you and your girlfriend permission to have sex. If that guess is right then consider this column your official authorization to fornicate.