Dear Emily: My husband often plays videogames while watching our 2-year-old son. I’ve asked him not to do that because the games seem very violent, but my husband insists that our son doesn’t understand what he is watching, and so it doesn’t matter. How do I convince my husband he is wrong?

Dear Emily: I have been dating “Julie” for three weeks now, and really like her. Julie went to college and values education, while I never went to college and instead went straight from high school to getting an office job.

Dear Emily: I haven’t always had the greatest relationship with my dad, but we starting talking more over the last few months and getting to know each other (for what feels like the first time) lately. 

Dear Emily: My sister is pregnant, expecting her first child in six months, and I’d like to throw her a baby shower. But she also has a best friend, Tamera, who is very overbearing. I’m afraid she’ll try to take over the whole event and not let me have any part. 

The intergalactic keg party is in jeopardy. That’s because someone clogged the dirty Russians’ space toilet.

Dear Emily: I signed up for swimming lessons at my local gym to help me learn stroke techniques for a triathlon I signed up for. 

Thank goodness divers off the Florida Keys found my 385-year-old gold toothpick and earwax spoon. 

Dear Emily: I am 33 years old and never learned how to swim.

On our 20th anniversary, my lovely, red-headed wife and I sat down and took an honest assessment of our relationship, how far we had come in our two decades together and what the future holds for us crazy kids that everyone said would never make it. 

Dear Emily: I moved away from home about six months ago, and I am very homesick. I have a good job and some nice new friends, but I just feel so lonely at the end of the day. How do I get over this feeling? I

Dear Emily: I am not normally a clumsy person, but I seem to keep accidentally destroying or breaking things in my girlfriend’s home. 

Dear Emily,
My girlfriend loves to play poker and lately she’s been doing it online. I’ve noticed she’s been using the online chat function and I’m concerned that she’s conversing with other players.