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Dear Eric: My friend has a particularly troubling habit.

When we go out to eat with someone else, after we finish eating and are just sitting around talking, she, without fail, will suddenly announce she’s got to go and jumps up and leaves almost immediately.

When it’s just the two of us out to eat together, this never happens. Not once.

This is rude, right? It’s certainly unsettling. Or am I being controlling to be bothered by it?

I’m dumbfounded.

Would it be appropriate for me to address this habit with her? If yes, how

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