Dear Eric: When I share good news with my father, his reaction is always to predict the worst outcome. “My son got his first job in DC!” “The traffic is going to be terrible for him.”
Dear Blues: As A. A. Milne showed us, Piglets get most of their emotional energy from conversations with Poohs and Tiggers. You shouldn’t avoid telling your father good news, but it would help if you shifted your expectations. Tiggers rarely change their stripes and the same is true of Eeyores.
Dear Eric: I’m a 31-year-old queer woman and I’ve been with my partner for 11 years. They’ve known their whole life they don’t want children and have absolutely no doubts. I didn’t think I did either, and didn’t think I had doubts. But now all of a sudden many people in my queer community are coming out of the woodwork and starting the arduous process of making/adopting babies, and I’m like, “I thought we were all on the same page about this!” It’s making me question my lack of doubt.
To my mind, there’s a couple things going on here. First, even in lives full of contentment, it’s normal to look around and wonder about the path not taken. If it wasn’t, the whole genre of time travel and time loop movies wouldn’t exist and I just don’t think I can live in a world where Jennifer Garner didn’t do the “Thriller” dance in“13 Going on 30.”
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