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How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others?
How do I politely tell her I only want to hang out with her?
I'm pretty sure you have missed some important information from her, here. It's untold, but shown.
Having a friend of hers coming with ...
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How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others?
Adding this answer for the minor gap in the other answer: what if she isn't actively inviting her friend to avoid uncertainties?
It's not beyond the realm of possibilities that she's simply inviting ...
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How do I tell my sisters not to befriend a toxic friend?
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Having lived in Southeast Asia (Singapore) all my life, and also being at your sister's current age range, I understand how you (and your sisters) feel. I've seen far too many of my ...
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How do I tell my sisters not to befriend a toxic friend?
You don't.
One of my best friends is the younger sister in this situation with a brother 10 years older than her. From her perspective, she's an adult (and has been one for 4 years now) but she's ...
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How to talk to my teacher after my valedictorian speech script was altered beyond recognition?
You do not want to trouble the teacher and that's nice of you...
...but he/she is troubling you and this is worth at least an attempt to fix
...and you won't have the chance to trouble him/her ...
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How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others?
Go to a movie with her and welcome her friend. Enjoy yourself - you are in her company after all. Your goal is for the three of you to be relaxed and comfortable in each others company.
Kick all ...
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How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others?
There are a number of things she could be intending by inviting a friend:
She took your offer to "hang out" at face value and does not think you're hoping to date her. She's invited her friend ...
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How to deal with silent treatment between family members?
If you want to play mediator between the two, you need to realize that it's a delicate job. Any sign of siding with either of them will be the end of it. With that out of the way, the first thing you ...
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How do I tell my sisters not to befriend a toxic friend?
(I come from Europe, so the following may seem foreign to you)
You cannot decide who your adult sisters choose as friends. You can, however, try to affect your relationship with them. They are ...
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How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others?
TLDR; she wants things to be explicit. It could be that she had ambiguous relationship with a murky ending. Could be something else altogether. I won't try to guesstimate the reason.
You have two ...
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How to talk to my teacher after my valedictorian speech script was altered beyond recognition?
This is very late on my part, but since it may still be relevant: Life is full of difficult decisions. You might not WANT to deliver that speech but you did it in the end. You might not WANT to ...
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How to talk to my teacher after my valedictorian speech script was altered beyond recognition?
It's a few days after the graduation, and this is how I dealt with it.
I did give the speech
I simply had to. There was nobody else that was going to give the speech and I don't want to put my ...
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How do I tell my sisters not to befriend a toxic friend?
You don't.
Your sisters are adults now. As adults, they don't have to listen to you, or to their elders.
You can advise them that you think this isn't in their best interests, as can your parents. ...
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How to politely tell a friend that I want to hang out with her, but not invite others?
I'm way past dating and any of that, but at the time if a girl invited her friends along to anything, it also meant you accept her AND her friends. Even if things were to get serious, if her friends ...
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How to deal with silent treatment between family members?
Part of stubbornness is a dynamic that evolves where a lot of time, giving in, conceding or admitting fault of some sort would not be a bid deal, if it weren't a capitulation or reward for that other ...
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