Ask Molly Ringwald

‘She makes it her mission to spread rumours and gossip to manipulate our social situation’

‘Everyone makes a clunker of a joke now and again – something that sounded funnier in your head, or just a case of wildly misreading your audience’

‘It’s a terrible feeling that many women experience because we constantly compare our bodies with impossible-to-attain perfection in the media’

‘Our digitally native kids don’t understand how their actions can come back to embarrass or harm them later’

‘I find myself wondering what it might be like to date and get to know a completely new person. I don’t want to leave my partner, but…’

‘Frenemies don’t bring anything to the table and they make us feel bad, sneakily undermining us with covert criticism, making sure our life pales in comparison to their own’

‘He rarely takes my side and it makes me feel rejected’

‘Life is a series of calculated risks. Sometimes they pay off, sometimes they don’t, but they always take us somewhere new’