Skeptical Dear Skeptical, Don't duck out for fear of the worst scenario, imagining how a new job might degenerate. You're young and you ought to anticipate the best. The genius of the popular media, including print journalism, lies in its ability to keep absorbing new styles and fringe viewpoints and to keep reinventing itself. Newspapers that don't welcome bright young writers will limp into the woods bleeding and lie down and die. I ask you.
Life is too short to spend it in a marriage that's passionless and suffocating from the start.
Put on your coat and go home. Dear Mr. Blue, I met a man in April. He is 45, divorced and was very attentive until I got sick with Lyme disease and depression, but still we kept in touch though he was traveling. In September, he asked me out again. The date was wonderful, but I didn't hear from him for another week, then we met again, then another 10 days passed.