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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Should my widowed mother and her boyfriend get separate beds?

Plus: another suggestion for calling in a forgotten debt, and how to handle Brexit arguments

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Q. I was interested in the advice given to the niece who owed £30 (12 March). A more direct option, which I have had to use in the past, is: ‘Have you forgotten about the £50 I loaned you?’ The response I received was, ‘I thought it was £30?’ To which I replied: ‘Oh.

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