Ask Molly Ringwald
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‘She makes it her mission to spread rumours and gossip to manipulate our social situation’
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‘Everyone makes a clunker of a joke now and again – something that sounded funnier in your head, or just a case of wildly misreading your audience’
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‘It’s a terrible feeling that many women experience because we constantly compare our bodies with impossible-to-attain perfection in the media’
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‘Our digitally native kids don’t understand how their actions can come back to embarrass or harm them later’
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‘I find myself wondering what it might be like to date and get to know a completely new person. I don’t want to leave my partner, but…’
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‘Frenemies don’t bring anything to the table and they make us feel bad, sneakily undermining us with covert criticism, making sure our life pales in comparison to their own’
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‘He rarely takes my side and it makes me feel rejected’
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‘Life is a series of calculated risks. Sometimes they pay off, sometimes they don’t, but they always take us somewhere new’
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‘In an ideal world, this situation would be something you could talk about with your wife. Unfortunately, she’d probably feel pretty bad’
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‘I’m morally opposed to giving a penny to a company that thinks it’s OK to paint disgusting slogans about women all over its vans. But he won’t budge’
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‘Maybe your jealousy is entirely unfounded, but I happen to think that the strong feelings you describe are there for a reason’
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‘Your brain desperately needs the hormones that fire during exercise, which in turn helps to give you the motivation to tackle the other stuff in life’
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‘The too close/not close tango is one you will find yourself dancing throughout this relationship’
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‘I don’t see much of a difference between using alcohol or cannabis, except that the former seems to incite a lot more violence’
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‘Family is always worth a try. Who knows, through a campaign of compassionate honesty you might be able to repair your own relationship with her, too’
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‘Why you are feeling anxious is what to stay focused on. If you don’t get to the root of this, you are destined to sabotage your friendship’
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‘No son would like to imagine his mother unhappy. By going on, and living as fully and joyfully as you possibly can, you honour his memory’
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‘After 33 years together, the optimist in me would like to think your marriage deserves a chance to be saved’
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‘We both know the attraction is there, and he has started making plans for us to do things together including meeting his kids’
Ask Molly Ringwald: our agony aunt’s final piece of advice