Dear LFTP: the widowed-and-dating letter
- Should a widowed woman ask her old friend for coffee or a beer, and what signals a date?
A woman whose husband died two and a half years ago wants to ask an old high-school friend out — 'should I ask him for coffee, or for a beer so he knows I want a date?' The hosts say she's overthinking it and suggest offering both, then a host riffs on remarriage: 'where's the rice? nobody else would put up with me,' the Tide-vs-homemade-detergent problem — concluding honestly that he knows he couldn't do it, which is itself wisdom. Secular's advice: message that you'll be in town to 'catch up'; don't mention the documents.
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