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Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow to put aside family drama on Christmas Day

‘Christmas is a time for compassion and compromise.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow do I get my friends to stop taking my photograph?

Any attempt to coerce someone into doing something they don’t want to do, no matter how trivial or lighthearted it might seem, is simply not the kind of behaviour that should be encouraged.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumWhat to do when you can’t keep up with rich rellies

Times are tough, and you are by no means the only person in Perth who has had to swap champagne nights out for cut-price, bleach-your-insides-cheap-chardonnay nights at home.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumWhat to do when friends critique your life choices

If you’ve got it flaunt it and if you love it, do it. That’s your Aunt’s advice. 

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumWhat happens when neighbours go to war over boundaries

‘One is well aware that sometimes neighbours can get on every single one of your nerves.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumWhy it is never a good idea to comment on someone’s looks

These comments are almost always delivered as passive-aggressive chat-up lines by drunk blokes who seem to think telling a woman they could look happier is a sure-fire way to end the night in a steamy smooch.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety AuntPremiumShould I put up with my badly behaved co-workers?

It’s funny how often these sorts of knuckle-grazing chauvinistic men get inexplicably upset by women mirroring their behaviours.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety AuntPremiumWhat to do when your partner continually blows the budget

These are all topics people really should discuss prior to getting more serious because they are what is known as relationship deal-breakers. 

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHelp! How do I tell my colleague he has terrible breath?

One has to say that surely halitosis is one of the greatest crimes people can still inflict on society without the threat of proper recourse.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow to control an unruly community member

Taking matters into your own hands risks threatening the harmony that you are likely paying handsomely to enjoy

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHelp! My son refuses to accept that I am gay

‘One would suggest that his reaction, then, probably has more to do with an emotional inability or unwillingness to embrace change.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety AuntPremiumWhat to do when you get busted bonking

It is not uncommon for people to have stories of walking in on their parents doing the deed and having the image burnt upon their retinas for evermore.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHave I chosen the wrong career for my personality?

‘Keep being you and understand that it is not only more than enough, it’s also inspiring and empowering to those children who may be overwhelmed by your louder, more outwardly confident colleagues.’ 

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow to beat a stingy giver at their own game

‘This may give her pause to rethink her choices and maybe next year you won’t end up with chocolates that have faded as badly as Katy Perry’s career.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumDo I really need to embrace technological change?

Did you not get the memo that says as we get older we earn the right to give less and less credence to judgment of any sort?

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumIs it OK to attend the funeral of a secret love?

One would likely turn up in black, cry enough tears to fill the River Seine (and let’s face it, that ghastly river could clearly do with some decent salination) and then leave in a puff of perfume.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow to move on from a failed long-term friendship

‘You’ve been ruminating long enough and it is now time for action. In which case you have two options — to move on with no resolution or to seek out your old friend and hash things out with her.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow to make amends after offending a friend

Flattery is usually the best way to win back the favour of someone whose ego has been wounded so perhaps outline the reasons why you value his friendship.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety AuntPremiumWhat to do when your friend overlooks you

‘Excuse your Aunt for being flippant but unless the first-place prize is an all-expenses paid trip to Europe or having your mortgage paid off, then it sounds like your friend is taking things too seriously.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumHow to ask friends to chip in

‘. . . the aim is to roll out the welcome mat without becoming a doormat in the process.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety AuntPremiumWhen is the right time to allow tweens a taste of freedom?

If you feel like letting your daughter roam around the local shopping centre would be akin to letting a lame gazelle loose on the Serengeti plains then that is your prerogative as a mother.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt What to do when friends start resorting to psychobabble

One regularly gets the skeletons out of the closet for a quick pirouette around the room to let them know they are seen, then One happily closes the door on them again.

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumIs it still OK to just turn up at someone’s house?

‘Your Aunt is not beyond executing a stop, drop and roll when the doorbell goes.’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna

Anxiety Aunt PremiumWhat should I do about my adult daughter hacking my phone?

‘One almost wishes you were having a steaming hot love affair with an attractive younger man and that she happened upon some rather salacious texts while snooping through your phone’

Jay Hanna

Jay Hanna