How do I stop the gossip without embarrassing her or sounding judgmental? And how do I keep a friendship with someone who doesn’t seem to know where the line is?

She tells me personal things about other people in our group. Not just harmless gossip, either. Private details, health issues, money problems, etc.

If she gets the message, great. If she can’t stop bringing unwilling participants into the conversation, then keep her as a pleasant group acquaintance, not a close confidante. And yes, you should ...

"She tells me personal things about other people in our group. Not just harmless gossip, either. Private details." ...

She tells me personal things about other people in our group. Not just harmless gossip, either. Private details. Health issues. Marriages. Money problems. She’ll lean in and say, “Don’t tell anyone I ...

I didn’t think I’d be writing to an advice column at my age, but here I am, feeling like the new kid at the lunch table. I recently joined a small community group to get out of the house more and meet ...

In today's Dear Annie column, a reader navigates new friendship and how to set boundaries when kindness turns into gossip.

In today's Dear Annie column, a reader urges action after a woman’s trauma is falsely used in a friend’s memoir manuscript.

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For most of my life, I picked the wrong partners. Over time, I realized it wasn’t bad luck. I was choosing what I had seen, not what I had actually done the work to earn. Those patterns came from my ...

Dear Annie: For most of my life, I picked the wrong partners. Over time, I realized it wasn’t bad luck. I was choosing what I ...