‘TELL ME HOW IS IT HIS FAULT?’

I get upset and jealous because my boyfriend of six months receives lot of messages on Facebook from girls who say he is hot and sexy. I have ignored these messages so far. But, now I have started wondering if he actually deserves me. Please help.

—MsM

But M, how is it his fault if women like him? This is the problem with social sites. That is why I along with a few senior politicians, want the Internet banned, and all IT engineers and software providers arrested immediately. This would never have happened in the ’70s. There is only one other solution. Your boyfriend retouches his pictures on Facebook, and with the help of man’s second best friend, (also woman’s best friend), photoshop, he makes himself look like a cross between a very old orangutan and a Mumbai pothole. Of course, there are so many ‘wierdos’, among us that there still will be market for both old orangutans and potholes. As long as he’s on Facebook, you’ll have to live with the adulation. Why not try and start a little fan-club of your own to restore the balance? It beats jealousy for sure. How should I deal with a husband who doesn’t prioritise his two small kids or family, doesn’t love his children, is super insensitive to them, doesn’t love or protect them, and doesn’t see the need to go in for any kind of counselling? — Drew Yes, in spite of all the information out there, we tend to pick the best. Ask my poor wife. Drew, the German, actually Visigoth leader Gunther The Greedy, married his wife Pee Pah, after having only seen her sitting in a rocking chair. On their wedding night, he found out that she was very short in height. In fact, her height while sitting and standing was the same. Being a humanitarian (the only Visigoth who was), he didn’t have her killed. Instead, he had her stretched by four wild horses, which then resulted in her demise. The irony of her life being too short, wasn’t lost on anyone. Your husband sounds awful. I felt like retching, while reading about him. In fact, I just did. You need to find a person he respects, like his father, brother, mother or friend. Get them to make him look inward. He needs to introspect, if all your attempts fail, you have to ask yourself, if it’s worthwhile carrying this giant pimple around, that serves no purpose to you and your kids? A boy in my theatre group likes me a lot and wants to marry me. I told him that I am only 22 and it is not the age to think about all this. I told him I have a lot of responsibilities being the only child in the family. But, he is adamant about marriage. He calls and messages me all the time, which annoys me. I don’t have the heart to tell him that I don’t like him. I don’t want to block him because it won’t help. How should I tell him that I have my dreams and aspirations which are different from his?

—AC AC, I’ve understood the marriage part, but do you like him at all? This can be answered by the following experiment. If he, Osama Bin Laden, and Bart Simpson were hanging from a ledge, who would you save and why? If your answer is the boy, because Osama is dead and Bart Simpson is a fictional character, it clearly means you like the boy.

However, since you say you don’t like him, then you have two options, read out the last line of your question to him. It explains your position.

Or secondly, get a member of your troupe to explain your position to him, as nicely as possible.