Dr. Love
Doctor Love: Thanks for Listening
"Why not trust your friendship and talk to him about it? You don’t say how long you’ve been together but you don’t seem to be a couple of newlywed kids. Spare some embarrassment by quietly letting him know what you have discovered.
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Doctor Love: Helicopter Parent
After being called a helicopter Mom, a reader shares the fact that she wants to make life easier for her son than it was for her.
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Doctor Love: Questioning in San Pedro
"It’s hard to be at your confident best one hundred percent of the time, and it’s not unnatural to get a little fed up with the constant barrage of attention seekers on social media. It’s good that you are aware that the girls who are posting these pictures are doing simply that—attention seeking."
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Doctor Love: Going Crazy
"Welcome to adolescence, a drama-filled, emotionally draining daily challenge of how to make a preteen do anything they don’t want to do. Perhaps you didn’t go through this with your oldest daughter, but now you have to learn a different way to respond to your youngest."
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Doctor Love: Smart Mom
"The Doctor suspects you are just plain jealous, and you have you have allowed your jealousy to cloud your judgment of your son’s girlfriends. How did you decide they are all foolish—have you spent any time with any of them without judging them for their appearance?"
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Doctor Love: Leviticus Eighteen
"This does bring up the question of how you will respond should he realize he is gay as an adolescent. The teen years are full of self-doubt and uncertainty and you will need to be loving and supportive of him as he tries to find the answers to many questions he will have as he grows up, including his sexuality."
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Doctor Love: Not the Daddy
"Child-rearing is something a couple should agree upon when they decide to marry, preferably before having children. That time has passed. Move on, this isn’t the relationship for you."
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Doctor Love: Confused
"The term “Political Correctness” came about in the nineties and whether you choose to try to understand it or ignore it, it’s here to stay."
