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Question: My boyfriend lent me $12,000, saying to repay him when I could. Six months later, when I broke up with him and didn’t pay the loan back right away, he e-mailed my friends, family and new boyfriend revealing secrets I’d told only to him. He also e-mailed prospective clients of my new business saying I was unreliable and untrustworthy. Especially since I lost customers because of Adam, am I MORE

Question: Karen, my otherwise good financial adviser, often e-mails me articles on Obama’s handling of the economy. These pieces are politically one-sided, and it’s not my side. Should I complain?

Answer: Very irritating, these folks with an ax to grind who relentlessly forward “interesting” e-mails to everyone they know.

Of course you can ask Karen to stop with the clipping service. But there’s another issue here. We presume that her financial MORE

Question: The stock market wiped out my elderly parents’ savings. My two sisters and I now have to help with their bills. How should we divide them, given that some of us have more money and some of us have more kids?

Answer: Hold on. Before you divvy the bills, there’s a lot more to consider than bank accounts and kids. What if, for example, one sister is providing most MORE

Question:  My husband and I are divorced (no kids), but we’ve been unable to sell our house, so we’re both still living in it. Since I’m away a lot on business, shouldn’t he be paying more than half of the utility bills?

Answer:  But what if you take longer showers?

We’re not kidding. There are countless ways you and your ex consume water and energy unequally. Perhaps one of you likes to MORE

Question: A friend who goes out a lot tells me he tips 25-30 percent in bars, so bartenders are always giving him free drinks. Jake says everyone knows to do this. Even if they do, isn’t this cheating the bar owner?

Answer: A penguin goes into a bar and says to the bartender “Have you seen my father?” The bartender says “I don’t know. What’s he look like?”

Don’t bartenders put up MORE