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Ask Amy: Eye popping hot tub hopping in the offing

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

And yes – of course – despite what you claim, you do seem to be planning to “exhibit” yourselves.

It would be easy for you to drape a towel around yourselves for that 20-foot journey from your house to the hot tub (don’t you need a towel, anyway?).

You might have neighbors who would choose to pull their shades, build a tall (or taller) fence, or simply stop using their own backyard – or you might have neighbors who would welcome your hot tubbing by training binoculars in your direction or photographing you from their property and posting photos or video on social media.

It is something of a tricky legal issue, but if neighbors can freely see you from their own property without peering through a window or a fence, your own right to privacy is less assured.

Dear Amy: My wife and I are close friends with a married couple we have both known since we were all kids growing up together.

However, my wife and her best friend have not spoken in six years.

 

While we all agree that the friend had been quite "over the top" in many instances, she did apologize twice – but my wife just can't forgive her.

Her husband and I have still managed to maintain our close friendship, keeping in touch by phone and email (since we live in different states).

My problem is that their granddaughter is about to be married, and we have been invited to the wedding.

My wife refuses to go, saying that her friend hurt her very badly and that I would be disloyal if I go.

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