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I've been reading you for over a year now and really enjoy your advice. I wish I had had someone like you when I was growing up. But I had the parents I had, and got the advice they gave me, whether it was best for me or not. Now I need some of your good advice. I lied to someone to get out of something and now I am stuck in the strange position of having to continue my stupid lie to make it "work," or to 'fess up and appear in all my tarnished glory as the liar that I am. But it gets more complicated: one of the requirements of my job is to lie to people on the phone (which I hate doing), but never to my supervisor, who is the exact person I lied to. If she finds out I lied to her, I'll be fired on the spot – and I can ill afford to lose this job, which would mean an avalanche of bad things for me, starting with losing my apartment. But I'm losing sleep. What do you recommend I do?

"Kate"

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Eventually, everybody gets around to having relationship problems (or at least questions about relationships). Here is mine: I had a boyfriend who was very romantic and very loving. He said all the right words, did all the right things. But unfortunately for both of us, I caught him online still looking for a match (we met on one of those sites). I was merely checking out a friend's profile who asked for my opinion of what she had to say. There he was as one of her possibilities. He claimed that was not "cheating." He claimed he wasn't still dating others. Then he admitted he was afraid of losing me and wanted a backup. Well, he got exactly what he was afraid of. 

I've been dating another man I met on the same site for about two months now and things are going pretty good. He says he loves me, but I can't really say I love him, although I might use those words. Recently, my previous boyfriend has been texting me and emailing me and telling me how foolish he was and how there can never be another one like me. He not only wants me back, he's asked me to move in with him. Yes, he knows about my present situation.

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Dear Mom:

I'm angry. I'm upset. I'm furious. I'm not feeling at all like forgiving my so-called friend for what she did. Yet I feel horrible. I feel miserable. And I feel like she's causing me to act like someone I am not. It doesn't matter what she did. It truly was inexcusable and the only thing that could make it "excusable" in her mind is that it was her way of telling me something, although she could have told me that something more in keeping with the person she always professed to be by using words instead of doing what she did out of a very mean spirit and a black heart.

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