Saturday, March 10, 2012
Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Di Domizio!
1. Pennbrook Middle School presents its spring musical “Status Update” tonight at 7:30 p.m. The original play was written by a team of Pennbrook staff members and former students to celebrate 15 years of original musical theatre. 2. Psychic Development Group meets at 1 p.m. at Lansdale Library. Cost is $5 and sign up at www.meetup.com. 3. The Giving Tree Team holds a children's used book drive today outside the lower level of Sears at Montgomery Mall. 4. An indoor flea market is being held at Family Worship Center, 1000 Troxel Road, Towamencin, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 5. Today, Montgomeryville-Lansdale Patch editor Tony Di Domizio gets hitched to Elizabeth Mahoney.
Monday, June 13, 2011
A concerned friend asks how to intervene with a peer's drug use.
Dear Lizzie, I have a close friend that is addicted to drugs, and I don’t know how to help him. He has been smoking weed and snorting coke for about four years now. His family doesn’t know, and he often hides it from them. The thing about it is it has not affected his personal or professional life. He calls himself a “functioning addict.” It’s nothing to joke about, but when I think about it, he may be right. He made it through high school and is succeeding in college part-time right now. His job doesn’t have drug testing, and as far as I know, he hasn’t fouled up at work. My concern is that he won’t be able to kick his habits. He jokes about being a functional drug user, but is this something he will obsess about his entire life? I’ve …
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
A father wants to divorce his wife, but he has concerns over his daughter's feelings.
Dear Lizzie, I am 40 years old, and I have been married for five years. My wife and I have a beautiful 3-year-old daughter together. Of those five years, three of them have been horrible. I stuck through it for four years, and the last three have been nothing but heartache and misery. I’ve tried to continue and make it work, but I’m at a point where I am so tired and exhausted. The marriage is over. One night, I met a very attractive woman. We went out on a date, but we didn’t do anything. We sat and talked for two hours—nothing physical. My wife found out about it, and I finally came clean, and it solidified the end of my marriage. The worst part is my daughter is stuck in the middle. She spends time away from me with her mother. We …
Monday, May 23, 2011
Five years ago, a stepsister lost her baby in utero and her stepsister sent condolences through email, amidst her own personal struggles and pain
Dear Liz … My stepsister refuses to talk to me. It has been about 5 years now since we last spoke. The reason I got for this – not from her, but from other family members – is because I wasn't there for her during the death of her baby in utero. I did email her my condolences and wished I could be there. Around the same time she lost her father and another family member as well. I know she was hurt, but I really didn't know what to say especially where I was with my life. I was in a failing marriage to a man who had told me on several occasions that I was worthless and that I should kill myself. He said these things in front of our son, which made it worse. Throughout our marriage he would webcam women in chat rooms and meet up for …
Monday, May 16, 2011
A son-in-law wants to confront his wife's mother on her suggestions on how they should raise their children.
Dear Lizzie, I am writing to ask for advice because my mother-in-law is a witch! She meddles in everything, she stops over without calling, and we don’t have kids yet, but she tells us how to raise our children as far as religion and schooling. My wife will not say anything to her mother about how she’s intruding in our life. It should be me and her to discuss what we’re going to do as parents. We should be our own family unit, and we should come first. We are our own family first, and then everyone else is extended family. My mother-in-law acts like top dog, and she comes first beyond everyone. Please help me figure out how to get through to my mother-in-law and wife. - Son-in-Law, Chalfont Dear Son-in-Law, You are 100 percent correct …
Monday, May 9, 2011
A fiancee cheated with an ex-boyfriend, but regretfully ended it. Now, her soon-to-be husband wants the truth.
Hey Lizzie, I have a sticky situation here. I have been dating my girlfriend for over four years. I am 32, she's 29. We have had a great relationship, and in January, I proposed. She said yes, and we have begun to plan our wedding for 2012. A month ago, her ex-boyfriend’s wife contacted me on Facebook. She informed me that my fiancée and her husband had been seeing each other in late January through March of this year. She and her husband were splitting, and she wanted me to know, because she thought it was "the right thing to do." I was really upset by this news. I wanted to calm myself down before I did anything rash. I didn't speak about it to my fiancée. I did some snooping when she left her laptop on. I found emails that had ended …
Monday, May 2, 2011
When you hook up with a co-worker, it can lead to bad situations.
Dear Lizzie, I work with a woman, and we have somewhat of a past. We hooked up a couple times outside of work, but we never got serious. I thought we mutually ended the affair. Recently, she has been sexually harassing me at work. It is often very subtle, and no other co-workers know about what happened. Most of the time I am uncomfortable with it all. I have told her to knock it off, but she must think I’m not serious about it. Even outside of work, she continues to do this stuff. The last thing I want to do is file a sexual harassment case and make the whole thing public. What should I do? - Harassed, Reading Dear Harassed, First and foremost, you need to take matters into your own hands. This means speaking directly to this woman. The…
Monday, April 25, 2011
A sophomore struggles with new experiences she is facing with boys at her high school.
Dear Lizzie, I just began high school and am coming to the end of my sophomore year. High school is a whole different world to me than middle school. In middle school, my friends and I would go out with guys and kiss and stuff, but that was about it. But it seems like this year, everything is different. All of my friends are hooking up with upperclassmen boys, especially boys that drive to school and are taking things to a different level. One of my friends gives the senior that drives her to school oral sex almost every day on the way home from school, and they aren't even in a relationship. Boys in this same group of friends have made advances to me to give them oral sex, and so far I haven't done it and kept it at flirting and stuff. …
Monday, April 18, 2011
A 14-year-old questions whether or not she is gay or bisexual and how to tell people about it.
Dear Lizzie, I am a 14 year-old female. I think that I might be a lesbian. I don't know if I'm a lesbian or I'm bisexual. I don't even know if this is just a phase that I'm going through. I have liked boys, but I have also liked more girls then boys. I've told a few of my friends that I'm bisexual. They seemed OK about it. What I'm worried about is going into high school and me being the only one who's a lesbian or gay. I don't want to stay in the closet forever. I want to be able to tell my family that I'm gay or that I have a girlfriend. I don't know what to do please help me!! - Worried, Connecticut Dear Worried, In the beginning you said you weren’t sure, and then at the end of your question, you said you are gay. You seem a bit …
A 14-year-old questions whether or not she is gay or bisexual and how to tell people about it.
Dear Lizzie, I am a 14 year-old female. I think that I might be a lesbian. I don't know if I'm a lesbian or I'm bisexual. I don't even know if this is just a phase that I'm going through. I have liked boys, but I have also liked more girls then boys. I've told a few of my friends that I'm bisexual. They seemed OK about it. What I'm worried about is going into high school and me being the only one who's a lesbian or gay. I don't want to stay in the closet forever. I want to be able to tell my family that I'm gay or that I have a girlfriend. I don't know what to do please help me!! - Worried, Connecticut Dear Worried, In the beginning you said you weren’t sure, and then at the end of your question, you said you are gay. You seem a bit …
Raymond A Hopkins
2:31 pm on Monday, June 13, 2011
Lizzie...One thing you did not mention is setting boundries. SOmetimes if friends or loved ones enable and accept the behavior, the abuser will continue. Addiction is something that once it grabs a hold the person will not shake until everything else is going to be lost. Souderton should also know that you can set limitations on this friendship. Tell them that while they are doing this, you can … more ›