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My mother is bugging me to go out, but really, with three kids, this isn't the time.
  • What I'm wondering:

    Why do people send letters to Cary that contain so many details that they'll be instantly recognized by anyone who knows them--say, the "lazy, abusive shit" of an ex? I've often thought that these situations can't possibly end well.

    As for the letter itself, I don't get it. She doesn't want to date. BFD. I don't want to date very often myself, and so I don't. Other times I do. Sometimes I eat cookie dough out of the tube. I don't feel any need to ask Cary to validate these decisions. So her mother's bugging her--that's why most of us eventually stop listening to our mothers on such matters.