Ask Amy: Playdates need parental permission
Dear Ignored: What gives is this: Everyone is different. People respond to stress, and personal, health, and national challenges in different ways. Some people are growing out their beards, learning to bake bread, and are setting up daily ZOOM-meetings with friends and family members, while some people are spending their days caroming between anxiety, sadness and worry - and doing it in solitude.
This is a tough time for most people, and the most compassionate response is to give yourself - and others - a break. I hope you will continue to reach out to friends, because that sounds like something you are good at.
Dear Amy: "M" wrote to you about a situation involving a friend of hers who is staying in her guest house (for an indefinite period) in LA, while M is in Ohio.
I appreciated that you included some positive aspects of having someone living at her property while she isn't there, but I wish you had urged her to consult a lawyer regarding her friend's tenancy, and the legal implications of having someone living in her home without an agreement.
You said that if the friend pays rent, it could be difficult to get her to leave, but that can be the case with non-renters, too.
-- Been There
Dear Been There: Absolutely. Thank you.
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