Agony Aunt

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
After my boyfriend and I have made love, all he does is grunt and go straight to sleep or slope off and play computer games until 3am. I, on the other hand, wish to punctuate our coitus by way of a lingering, romantic conversation...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
My boyfriend and I have recently been talking about spicing things up in the bedroom and maybe acting out some of our secret fantasies for each other, which now turns out to have been an enormous error...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
My girlfriend of several years keeps pestering me to make things official and marry her. Although I'm not wholly opposed to the idea, I am slightly worried that marriage could ruin our relationship completely. I've seen it happen too many times to other people: as soon as you put a ring on her finger it's like a man-trap snapping shut on your leg...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
The other day, my girlfriend was trying on an outfit and she asked my opinion. I said that she looked nice, at which point she got all uppity and said she didn't believe me and she wished that I would just be honest with her for once. So I told her the truth: that she looked like Les Dawson in a boob tube...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
I have developed strong feelings for a woman I work with but she does not seem to ready to accept our love and is in a permanent state of denial. Although I am always doing romantic things for her, like sending her clumps of my pubic hair through internal mail...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
I love my job but I'm thinking of leaving because my boss is a lecherous old git. He doesn't trust me, so he's always hanging around watching over me and making inappropriate comments about the quality of my work...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
My girlfriend and I are deeply in love, and I would dearly love her to be my wife one day. However, my prospective mother-in-law (who actually does look like Zelda from Terrahawks) hates my guts and makes my life a misery at every possible opportunity...

Your Problems Solved, With Holly Harper

Dear Holly,
There's a man at work who has expressed an interest in going out with me, but I am not sure what to do. He wears very thick glasses, has a greasy comb-over and a nervous twitch which involves him licking his lips frequently...