Questions tagged [bad-news]
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How to significantly reduce my hairstylist's tip, without upsetting her?
My haircuts - here in Manhattan - are expensive; if you care to have a hairstyle at all, and not just a quick shave with clippers at the barber shop, then the minimum cost is about $55 dollars, which ...
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Telling my mother that I have anorexia without panicking her
I have a lot of (mental) health issues and I know my mother is often worried about me. One of the things that worry her is how poorly I eat (I told her that I basically eat the same thing at every ...
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How do I tell my wife that a family member has just died with an illness they both have?
My wife has multiple sclerosis. Fortunately, hers is of the relapsing-remitting variety, which is one of the milder (in the long term) ones, and her treatment is doing wonders for her; she's only had ...
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How to break bad news about the death of a family member to the family?
This is my other question, and you can find the background of this question there.
When my grandmother was admitted to hospital, we (the whole family in town) are taking turns staying at the hospital....
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How can I tell someone who's in a vulnerable state the truth?
A very close friend of mine, let's call him David, in his mid-thirties has just (1 year and a half) recovered from a very hard and horrifying for his environment state of drug abuse and isolation that ...
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How to tell friends that I don't want them in my team?
This question relates to my football (soccer) team. Last year my team competed in a football tournament, we did okay but we didn't achieve our goal of winning the tournament.
This year, I want to ...
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How to talk to my parents about living abroad
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I'm 30, my parents are in their mid 50s, they are divorced and they both married after. I don't live with any of them (I'm in another city) and I visit them about once a month, also for ...
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