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The Vine: July 10, 2013
July 10, 2013 – 10:51 AM | 27 Comments
The Vine: July 10, 2013

I am a bridesmaid in a wedding at the end of the month. Unfortunately, I injured my finger three weeks ago and found out this week that it’s a tendon injury that requires a splint …

The Vine: May 1, 2013
May 1, 2013 – 10:50 AM | 40 Comments
The Vine: May 1, 2013

I have been friends with a woman for about 10 years now. I have known her much longer through mutual acquaintances, but we really just started having a personal friendship not that long ago.

The Vine: April 3, 2013
April 3, 2013 – 8:58 AM | 23 Comments
The Vine: April 3, 2013

I’ve emailed the Vine before, twice, and you and your readers were awesome both times. The first time was my asking for advice on how to deal with my rapidly spiraling depression as an international …

The Vine: March 13, 2013
March 13, 2013 – 9:54 AM | 20 Comments
The Vine: March 13, 2013

My partner is pregnant with twins (yay!) and her mother’s friends are throwing us a very fancy shower, and invited all of their fancy friends. Although I don’t know most of them very well, I …

The Vine: February 27, 2013
February 27, 2013 – 2:26 PM | 43 Comments
The Vine: February 27, 2013

I need some dating guidance. I recently opened an online dating profile and hit it off right away with one of my matches. We had been communicating on the site for about a week when …

The Vine: February 20, 2013
February 20, 2013 – 2:52 PM | 23 Comments
The Vine: February 20, 2013

If your new boyfriend tells you he’s taking an acne medication but you suspect for various reasons that it’s an antidepressant, but you don’t push it because you’ve only known each other a few weeks …

The Vine: February 13, 2013
February 13, 2013 – 10:58 AM | 37 Comments
The Vine: February 13, 2013

This time last year, my husband and I decided to try and get pregnant. For the first few months, we decided to “Not Try Not To Try” (I go off birth control and we see …

The Vine: January 9, 2013
January 9, 2013 – 1:16 PM | 23 Comments
The Vine: January 9, 2013

Guy and I are graduate students in the same program and have all the same friends. We’d been dating on-and-off for about a year and broke things off last week. If I’m honest, it was …

The Vine: December 26, 2012
December 26, 2012 – 10:59 AM | 27 Comments
The Vine: December 26, 2012

I have a bit of an apartment problem. Our upstairs neighbors are stompy walkers. I seriously don’t understand how normal human beings can make this much noise when they walk. It’s not a normal “all …

The Vine: December 14, 2012
December 14, 2012 – 11:32 AM | 46 Comments
The Vine: December 14, 2012

Here’s two for the readers. The first was a book on tape that I listened to but never finished, probably sometime around 1998, although the book itself definitely predated that — I want to say it …