Below are the letters from Episode 16 2013. Click Here to Watch our Panel discuss these topics and share your thoughts on the letters below.
Hello Mitch and Panelist,
I have a very close friend who insists on going out at least twice a week to find men. I think she’s a sex addict. She hates the fact that none of the guys she meets and takes home ever want to talk to her again and they certainly turn the other way when they see her the next time. I have fairly strong feelings for her but I won’t go anywhere near her in that way or even broach the subject until she grows out of this constant one night stand sex fetish.
She’s a really good friend and I hate seeing her treat herself with such little respect. Perhaps she continues because she can’t find a guy who will stay with her. I know I’m constantly jealous all the time but I still say nothing. Should I open my mouth or should I keep mum and wait until she’s past it? I know she’s hurting herself by looking for love in all the wrong places. I just need certainty before I can intervene, I don’t want to be hurt myself.
Craig, Brighton Vic
Dear Panel,
I’m 36 and I’m moving back in with mum and dad. What is the problem that everyone has with that? I’m sick of this negative group mentality thing we Aussies have? To move back in with the olds is apparently a big no no. I’ve been in the real-estate business for the past ten years. Looking at the growing trend for a smaller and smaller number of occupants in a home, I see the reason for so much loneliness and depression.
We need the company of other people to feel connected, but as economic sheep with a group mentality, we apparently have the greater need to have our own kingdom; all because we’ve been brainwashed that THIS is normal behaviour. Well it’s not normal , it’s economically driven behaviour that is just out of step with the real needs of all of us. Now that we’re in an economic downturn maybe we’ll understand our basic human requirements rather than focus on being economically driven and accepting the misplaced values of our out of balance materialistic society.
So really folks, any valid reasons I shouldn’t move back in with my folks??
Ben Z, Floreat, WA
Dear Sweet and Sour,
My girlfriend of six months and I have been pretty happy. Just before we began seeing each other however, she had gotten out of a pretty serious relationship. Every now and then she accidently slips up and calls me by her ex’s name. That was ok until it happened, you guessed it, while we were having sex. She insisted that she has no feelings for him and it’s been over with him for ages. I believed her up until recently, when the ex left a message on her home phone and I heard it when she played it for the first time.
She immediately ran to the machine to shut it off so neither of us could hear the rest of the message and while I pretended not to notice,I presume she played it once I’d left. I like her very much, but this incident has made me very insecure about our relationship. I’m not sure whether she needs more time to get over this guy, whether I’m getting myself into a position where I’ll get hurt, or if I should just ignore the whole name thing and phone message altogether. I just dunno?
Josh, Swinger Hill, ACT