Author Archives: Tough Talk: An Advice Column

Tough Talk, I have two great little boys who are fearless, powerful and knowledgeable beyond their young years.  I have met a new woman and we have been seeing each other for a while and she helps with the kids but can be harsh and upbrades them for trifling matters.  My sister’s brother-in-law’s youngest cousin’sContinue reading “Today’s Column: January 25, 2021”

Dear Tough Talk, My friend Nancy and I go way back to grade school when we were kids.  Over the years we have had our ups and downs and tiffs and scrapes, but we always came around and continued our friendship.  Lately however, she has been excluding me from outings and events with our otherContinue reading “Today’s Column: December 4, 2020”

My mother-in-law is a strong, complicated and smart woman who is good at pointing out people’s faults with snide remarks and snotty comebacks. She constantly insults and makes fun of my husband while she showers her other two children with compliments and expensive gifts that we find out about later when someone let’s the secretContinue reading “Today’s Column: December 3, 2020”

TT, My mother-in-law is a strong, complicated and smart woman who is good at pointing out people’s faults with snide remarks and snotty comebacks.  She constantly insults and makes fun of my husband while she showers her other two children with compliments and expensive gifts that we find out about later when someone let’s theContinue reading “December 3, 2020”

For everyone who keeps TT going, have a great, safe and honest holiday season. Don’t take any crap. Catch up with you next week and until then . . . take care.

Tough Talk, Let’s just say I am very inexperienced with women never having a girlfriend and now at the age of thirty-something, I’m worried that I will never find the right woman for me.  What should I do?  (Catatonk, SC) Catatonk, I strongly suggest you immediately purchase the services of a prostitute.  You don’t wantContinue reading “Today’s Column: November 24, 2020”

Tough Talk I try to treat people the way that I like to be treated, but there are so many mean and nasty and prickly pears out there.  Every day there is someone telling me what to do, bossing me around or just acting superior.  Some people are blatantly rude too just cutting you offContinue reading “Today’s Column: November 23, 2020”

Tough Talk, My sister’s boyfriend is handsome, funny and financially stable with a bright future working at his family business.  We just learned however that he was arrested and convicted for molesting an elderly woman who was unconscious and in life support at a hospice.  He denies it and said he just pled guilty toContinue reading “Today’s Column: November 20, 2020”

Tough Talk, My sister’s best friend’s little cousin comes over to our house regularly as my sister babysits him.  When he was younger, everybody liked him and he was the baby of the family so to speak.  But now, he is a plain mean, rude, nasty little boy and no one likes him.  If heContinue reading “Today’s Column: November 19, 2020”

TT, I love my boyfriend.  He is nice, kind and smart and should have a good and solid future in his field.  However, he still has a roommate who is really rude and inconsiderate always popping in when we’re talking and want some time alone.  He is really indifferent or stupid, but he just can’tContinue reading “Today’s Column: November 18, 2020”