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 should I go about it?

Perhaps I could just give her a copy of my question and your response to her and confess I’m the one who wrote the letter to you?

– Dumbfounded

Dear Dumbfounded:

Before you give her the question, try asking a question or two about the habit

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