I am wondering how I can help an individual overcome counter-productive avoidance behavior. For example, let's say a woman (let's call her Jane) works in an office where her boss once became physically violent and had a history of screaming at his subordinates. Despite this having been dealt wit...

Yesterday afternoon I (male, late 30) went to the supermarket in my neighborhood to buy something. Since the sky was menacing rain, I took along an umbrella. Lucky me, when I got out from the supermarket it was raining, so I opened the umbrella and headed home. Few meters ahead I saw a woman (l...

Asking for my wife: My wife has been sponsoring a child in Africa for 15 years. They regularly exchanged letters through the sponsorship program. No direct contact occurred, the letters were being transported and translated by the sponsorship program. The money we sent to the sponsorship progra...

I'm pretty sure that these are things that we all face. Let's say that you spent months researching about something (be it moving from full time job to being a freelancer, creating a website, starting a business etc). There are colleagues who don't speak to you, but want to learn how they can do ...

I have run into a problem at work which I can not figure out the best way to deal with; the coworkers often like to gossip about eachother, and me being new makes me a great person to tell gossip (and most likely gossip about). How can I tactfully tell them that I would prefer not to hear or ta...

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A coworker in the cubicle next to mine only wants to talk about her daughter when someone comes to her cubicle to engage in small talk. The conversation may start out talking about things like our last company meeting, weather, politics, sports, economics, etc., but the conversation always ends w...

My supervisor always discourages. My reputation in team has been ruined by her. Most of the time she ignores me. Whenever I try to build some confidence. She finds faults in my work. (for ex - She asked some question - I was started to answer. and without letting me complete the first sentence- t...

In 2 weeks I will have a new sister in law as my brother is getting married. I knew her before they dated and thought that that she talked a lot about herself, but that otherwise was friendly and pleasant. My mum can get exciteable and my brother was worried when the gf came round for her first...

I have this old college "friend" that has been calling me for years almost every day. We live over 1,000 miles apart now and haven't actually seen each other fact to face for over 5 years now. But it finally has gotten to a point where it is actually affecting my daily life. Previously I have bee...

In Offering to share my umbrella without sounding creepy op, assumed to be a man, shares an umbrella with a woman because it's raining a lot. For some reason good portion of the response to this question revolves around flirting. Given the situation, I don't understand why this is considered fl...

I tried to contact with certain person (from US) and discuss couple matters. I Got email from that person, asking me about my availability for next week. I replied I don't mind as all proposed dates suits me. Now it's almost end of the week, and I didn't got any response. Was My response impolit...