Ask Amy: Dad moved in, now – how to get him out?
Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency
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I wrote off the debt to my new life’s “tuition.”
He called me recently. He said he had to know why I was mad at him.
I said I was hurt that he used me as an ATM, and that he could repair things by repaying me, but not to call me again.
The problem is he still calls. I blocked Facebook, email, and my phone to him.
We share some friends, and they say they have “given” him money.
Most of them are still friends with him. I still get messages from him, as my friends tell him my new cell number.
What do I do? I don’t want to lose my social circle.
– The ATM
Dear ATM: You won’t lose your social circle, if you remove this man from being at the center of it.
Your friends have a right to assume the risk of having a friendship with him.
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