Dear Abby: I can hear woman beating up girlfriend in next room
The mother is aware of the situation and has threatened to call the police if she doesn’t stop, but she never does.
If you have a written lease for the room you’re renting, you cannot be evicted without cause.
Talk to the mother and tell her that if she doesn’t call the police when her daughter starts beating up on her girlfriend, you will.
If you do, the daughter may get the help she so obviously needs, and her victim will have a chance to get some help through domestic violence counseling.
Dear Abby: I have seen letters in your column about insensitive, thoughtless remarks made by others about loss and grief.
There are several stages of grief, and one never knows for sure which level the bereaved has reached.
[...] any comment will most likely be the wrong one.
Take your cue from the person grieving.
“I don’t know what to say” works for divorce, breakups or any catastrophic event.
If you do, pretty soon your time will come, she’ll tire of her boyfriend, and you will avoid a black eye.