Dear Queenie,
One of our close friend’s children is getting married for the second time. We are invited to this wedding, as we were to the first one. We like the groom and new bride to be – and their family – very much. We may go, but we are not sure yet.
If we decide not to go, what is the custom on gifts for a second wedding, as we did a lot for the first wedding. I do not feel we have to – or should – give the amount we did for the first wedding. But what is appropriate?
Dear Queenie,
Our son will be going away to college in September and we were pleased that he would be separated from his very clingy girlfriend. But now she has been accepted at the same college and plans to go there because that’s where he will be.
He tried to break up with her once or twice, but she made him feel so guilty about it that he stayed with her. We hoped when he went away to college it would settle the matter, but now this.
Queenie, what do you advise?—Need help
Dear Queenie,
A few of us friends used to get together now and then and go out to dinner, but some of the others have started bringing along other people the rest of us don’t know so well and it’s getting to be more and more people so now we take up a long table or several small tables and you can only hold a conversation with the person next to you.
Queenie, what’s the point of going out with friends if you can’t socialize with all of them? — Fed up
Dear Queenie,
My teenage daughter has gained a lot of weight recently and I’m starting to get worried she will gain so much it affects her health. I try to set a good example by exercising and eating healthy, but she doesn’t follow my example.
Queenie, what more can I do?—Worried mom
Dear Queenie,
A few of us friends used to get together now and then and go out to dinner, but some of the others have started bringing along other people the rest of us don’t know so well and it’s getting to be more and more people so now we take up a long table or several small tables and you can only hold a conversation with the person next to you.
Queenie, what’s the point of going out with friends if you can’t socialize with all of them? — Fed up
