Dear Queenie,
My boyfriend and I have been together for about 4 months now and to be honest I know what love feels like and let me be honest I am not in love. I try my best to break up with him but it just can’t come out of my mouth.
I don’t like people’s response. I’m the type of person who doesn’t like to disappoint, but what should I do? And I know he doesn’t love me also, but pretending to shake my head, why?
Queenie, what should I do? Why do I feel like this?—Confusion
Dear Queenie,
My granddaughter is going through “potty training” and doing fairly well, except that her parents let her carry the potty chair around the house and use it in front of everyone wherever the family happens to be, even when they’re eating dinner.
Queenie, I think such activity should be done only in the bathroom. Do you agree?—Pooped-out Grampa
Dear Queenie,
When people write to you for help, why do you so often try to pass them on to someone else, like telling them to get professional counselling?
Queenie, if they wanted to make such a big thing of it they would. They just want your advice for some small problem.—Critical reader
Dear Queenie,
Who is this George von Trapp you referred to in your answer to Lonely Daddy (Wednesday, October 28)?
Queenie, why is it okay for him to mess around with the nanny, but not for Lonely Daddy? Furthermore, Queenie, you spelled his name wrong. Shame on you!—Just Curious
Dear Just Curious,
I spelled the name correctly. It was not “George,” it was “Georg” without a final “e” (pronounced “GAY-org” not “Jorj”). Check Wikipedia if you do not believe me.
As for his conduct, have you never seen or heard of the movie “Sound of Music”? Baron Georg von Trapp did not “mess around” with his children’s nanny, he married her.
And, just for the record, that movie was a fictionalised (rather romanticised) account of a real Austrian family who became known as the Trapp Family Singers and eventually emigrated from Austria to the United States, where they enjoyed considerable success.
