2012

Welcome to Format Free Fridays at AskDrDarcy.com, the one day a week when I break the format of answering your questions and I dispense that which we rarely welcome in life: Unsolicited advice. It’s that time of year again:  Time for me to reflect on the past year, to evaluate, and to identify a new…

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Family Feud

Dear Dr. Darcy: My daughter is (and always has been) a big problem in our family. She sucks the life out of her father and me (and always has), she shares secrets which creates unnecessary drama between her siblings, she overspends at college (putting us in terrible debt) and is committed to destroying every family…

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The Adult Child

Dear Dr. Darcy: I came out to my parents as bisexual when I was 17.  Shortly after, I started dating my girlfriend of nearly 5 years.  We are on our way to marriage and a family as soon as the money is right.  It seems that my faithfulness to a woman has made my father…

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Hitch or Ditch

Dear Dr. Darcy – My ex and I dated for 5 years starting in college and we broke up because we were on two different pages on a lot of topics.  He and I have different religions and different political views.  While we were dating we tried very hard to allow each other the freedom…

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