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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My neighbor's Christmas lights are still up. Should I call the HOA?

An NPR listener writes: "We live in a nice neighborhood that has homeowner association rules, and our neighbor is violating them." Social etiquette experts weigh in.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Beck Harlan

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: I'm not sure about her sexuality. Should I try to kiss her anyway?

An NPR listener writes: "We've briefly discussed sexuality, but I have no idea how fluid she may be, if at all. " Plus: A woman wants to marry her partner, but his family constantly belittles her. Is the relationship doomed?

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Malaka Gharib

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: I'm jealous of my new girlfriend's dog. Should I call it quits?

"I find myself wishing she didn't have him," writes an NPR listener of his new girlfriend's dog. Podcasters Haley Nahman and Danny Nelson weigh in.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Malaka Gharib
My best friend told me if I ever had kids, it would be the end of our friendship.

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My best friend said he'd unfriend me if I ever had kids

A reader is taken aback by her best friend's reaction to the possibility that she might want kids. He says that if she had kids, it would change everything between them. Friendship experts weigh in.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Beck Harlan
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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My friend texts me way too much. How do I get her to stop?

An NPR listener says her friend pings her morning, noon and night, even if she doesn't respond. She'd like to say something, but she's afraid it will hurt her friend's feelings.

March 05, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Becky Harlan

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My friend kissed me and I liked it. Now he wants to take it back!

Plus: how to deal with an awful brother-in-law, what to do with a box of mementos you shared with your ex and how to tell a bestie you don't want to go on a couples trip.

February 13, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Becky Harlan
An NPR listener reads written correspondence between her husband and his close female colleague on his work computer, and is surprised by the intimacy of their conversation.

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My husband is more emotional with his work wife than he is with me

An NPR listener wonders whether her husband's relationship with a female colleague is too close for comfort. He says she's being competitive for no reason, and that he sees the woman as a 'sister.'

February 01, 2025
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Becky Harlan

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My daughter was left out of the holiday newsletter — again!

A mother wonders why her father-in-law keeps neglecting to mention his daughter in his annual newsletter to family. It includes updates on the other grandchildren. Why not her?

December 12, 2024
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By:
  • Andee Tagle

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: Is it a faux pas to create a 'happy graduation' registry for myself?

An NPR listener is graduating soon with her MBA. She wants to know if it's OK celebrate her achievement by asking loved ones to buy her gifts from a registry, similar to what people do for weddings.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Andee Tagle

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  • Family

Dear Life Kit: My wife wants to use the last of our savings for a 4th round of IVF

An NPR listener says they are ready to adopt a child and move on from in vitro fertilization. But their wife is focused on getting pregnant.

September 27, 2024
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By:
  • Andee Tagle

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: I resent that my WFH partner has more free time than I do

A listener says she has trouble respecting her husband because of his work-from-home habits. While she works long hours, he gets to sign off early. Therapist Moraya Seeger DeGeare weighs in.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Andee Tagle
Having a crush can be all-consuming. How do you snap out of it? Sex educator <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shanboodram/?hl=en" link-data="{"link":{"attributes":[],"linkText":"Shan Boodram","target":"NEW","url":"https://www.instagram.com/shanboodram/?hl=en","_id":"00000190-2bde-da39-a3fe-ffdff7140000","_type":"ff658216-e70f-39d0-b660-bdfe57a5599a"},"_id":"00000190-2bde-da39-a3fe-ffdff7140001","_type":"809caec9-30e2-3666-8b71-b32ddbffc288"}">Shan Boodram</a> has advice.

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: I'm ashamed that I still dream about my middle school crush

Plus: How to deal with a new partner who's attractive ... but messy.

June 18, 2024
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By:
  • Andee Tagle and
  • Becky Harlan

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  • Arts & Life

Dear Life Kit: My boyfriend says I need to live on my own before we move in together

Relationship researchers and clinical psychologists Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman weigh in on four tricky relationship questions.

February 23, 2024
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By:
  • Becky Harlan
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

10 pieces of well-worn life advice you may need to hear right now

We asked experts what life advice they keep on steady rotation. Here are 10 tried-and-true tips from therapists, career coaches and writers.

February 19, 2023
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By:
  • Becky Harlan,
  • Sylvie Douglis,
  • and 1 more

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  • Perspective

Dear Life Kit: How do I get out of my pandemic rut? Michelle Obama weighs in

The former first lady responds to an NPR listener who says that COVID has left them feeling lost and isolated. Her suggestion? 'Take a risk' and 'put yourself out there.'

November 23, 2022
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By:
  • Andee Tagle

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