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Dear Amy: I have been friends with “Susan” for over 35 years. I have shared many extremely sensitive and delicate problems with her. She has taken on the role of giving me lots of personal advice.

Dear Amy: Is there a way that a wedding invitation addressed to my wife and me and our 40-year-old single son could be changed to a “plus one” invitation so my son could bring his serious girlfriend of two-plus years to the wedding?

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: : I’m a sixth-grade girl in middle school, and I love your column. I finally started to become confident, but something that happened a couple of days ago struck me down.

Dear Amy: I’m a woman previously in a relationship with a man for more than 10 years that ended badly. He was married and divorced twice before and had three adult children, all of whom I loved and who loved me.

Governor Laura Kelly mentioned Kansas’ water crisis in her 2023 State of the State Address, but so far she has proposed few specific policies to alleviate the problem. Will this be the year that Kansas policymakers step up?

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: : I travel by air for work relatively often and have TSA Pre-check to get through security faster. My regional airport allows Clear to operate there, and I find myself getting angry every time a Clear employee escorts someone in front of me in line without acknowledging my presence, asking my permission, or apologizing for “cutting” in front of me.

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: Recently I told my wife that I planned to reach out to “Sharon,” a former co-worker who is an industry expert, for advice about changing jobs. My wife angrily and immediately accused me of having an affair with Sharon, and insisted that I wanted to get a job near her to continue the affair.

Dear Amy: My husband’s job requires that he be active on social media. His primary account contains mostly work-related content, but he also uses it to direct people to some personal writing and photography.

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: I am a woman in a long-term relationship with a man. We have a good relationship, talking through issues and agreeing on most things.