Category Archives: Dear Jac

Dear Jac – Diamond What?

Dear Jac,
I’m trying to buy an engagement ring for my girlfriend and there are too many options. I went to the store and said “I’d like to get a traditional engagement ring” thinking that the jeweler would show me a few options and I’d pick my favourite.
They have cases of engagement rings, and that’s just [...]

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Dear Jac – When Do You Say Enough is Enough?

Dear Jac,
I have been with my boyfriend for 5 years now, but this last year has been extremely stressful. We are only living off of one income right now, my income, and it just hardly gets us by.
My boyfriend is “working” for his cousin who barely ever pays him. For example, my boyfriend worked 9 [...]

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Dear Jac – Need talent

Dear Jac,
My boyfriend is in a band, he’s the lead singer. This is how we met. I saw him perform at some local venue, heard his voice and fell in love.
Anyways, we’ve been dating for a few years now and I actually wrote him a song!
It’s taken me a while to get it done perfectly [...]

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Dear Jac – I Object

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Dear Jac,
Right now I’m in a low spot of my life, so to speak.  Things have been very stressful with school work and residual work from my old job, applying to and being rejected from grad schools, and most recently my grandfather’s cancer diagnosis.
He has lung cancer that has spread to his lymph [...]

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Dear Jac – Why?

Dear Jac,
Why?
Well this is an excellent question, Strange One. I believe it can best be answered by breaking it down into parts. First, we need to ask ourselves “who’ as this is the easiest to answer. This question can also be posed as “whom” but there are rules to this. It’s completely objective, for example, [...]

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Dear Jac – Is The Woman Always Right?

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Dear Jac,
I’d like to get something really nice for my girlfriend for her birthday. We’ve been together for 8 months now and for every occasion I seem to get things wrong.
In November, we passed a jewelry store and she saw this diamond necklace that she absolutely loved. I bought it [...]

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Dear Jac – Fairweather Friends?

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Dear Jac,
I have this ‘special’ friend who annoys me to tears. I’ll explain the extent of our friendship first. We’ve been working together for 3+ years, we don’t hang out outside of work, except that one time that we went out for drinks. One time. We do have chatty lunches and [...]

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