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Guess who's back with the best weekly advice column in all fifty states? That's right - it's your local Karen spitting facts as per usual! Manager not meeting your demands? Neighborhood teenagers acting shady? Takeout food not made exactly the way you like it? No need to suffer any longer! Karen's here to tell you how to handle any nuisances that may come your way. She'll be having you living your best life in no time!

Want your question answered by Karen? Email dearkaren.cheezcake@gmail.com. 

You've heard about Karen, and you've come to love her eccentric ways. Now you can ask Karen how to live your best life on a weekly basis! She's got the manager, and she's got the scoop on what it takes to make everyone your bitch. Time to take life by the horns, and rock that sucker with Karen's topnotch tops. Don't hesitate - with Karen on your side, you're changing your fate for the better.

For more incredible advice from Karen, email dearkaren.cheezcake@gmail.com.

Have you complained to every manager in town, yet they still can't seem to get it right? Let Karen take over and be the life manager you need in your life. She's handled it all, from parents who don't know how to raise their children properly, or waiters that aren't working fast enough. With Karen by your side, you are guaranteed to have it all. What are you waiting for?! Come along with us on this entitled ride.

For more incredible advice from Karen, email dearkaren.cheezcake@gmail.com. 

It's time to enhance your life and get what's yours with Cheezcake's resident Karen! She's the classiest confidante in town, sharing the secrets to living her best life on a weekly basis. To all the soccer moms who would love nothing more than to spend their Sunday afternoons bitching out the manager, Karen is your new best friend. She understands you, she cherishes you, and she advises you always.

For more incredible advice from Karen, email dearkaren.cheezcake@gmail.com. 

Haven't been receiving the respect you deserve lately? Have no fear - your local neighborhood Karen is here to turn your life around! With her top-notch tips, you'll be living the life you've always dreamed of in no time. Everyone will be giving you exactly what you want when you want it, forever and always.

For more incredible advice from Karen, email dearkaren.cheezcake@gmail.com. 

Aah, that blissful feeling of being in love — it's a beautiful thing, but it doesn't come without its complications. At one point or another, many of us will have found ourselves in questionable relationships where we put up with behaviors we shouldn't have—speaking for a friend, of course. The rose-colored glasses we wear in relationships can blind us to some pretty glaringly obvious red flags, which we can only see clearly once the relationship has ended. On the bright side, we can use them as learning experiences of what not to ignore when it comes to our next relationship. A tweet asking people to share the biggest red flags they ignored in relationships has revealed some hilarious responses, which might make you relate to any previous sh*t shows you dated in the past. What were some red flags you ignored?

At this point in history, we're all well aware that life is a total hot mess. All of us have hopes and dreams, with no idea how to accomplish them. All of us have struggles and problems, with no idea how to solve them. 

Have no fear - in honor of 2021, your local neighborhood Karen is here!  

With Karen's advice, you'll get everything your little heart desires because you deserve the world and more, and anyone who gets in your way should be fired immediately. Do they know who they're speaking to? The audacity!

Shut the F up, and listen the F up because Karen has many words of wisdom to bestow upon you. If you're looking for more quality advice from Karen, email her at dearkaren.cheezcake@gmail.com.

Have you ever had such an awful date that you wished you could have escaped from there and then? We've all been there, but it's just so awkward to bail on a date early, especially if the person you're with is nice, but you're just not into them. Well, now you have some tips and tricks on what to do next time you find yourself in that situation. Enjoy these hilarious tweets on how to escape a date, and then share your advice on how to leave a bad date early in the comment section below.

Nothing can prepare you for the challenging yet rewarding journey of parenthood. Sure, there are parenting books, websites, and experts who can tell you all about what to expect, but it's all theoretical until you experience it yourself. And even then, some parents manage to f*ck it up in a big way, which makes me believe even more that parenting is a privilege, not a right. Someone has created some hilariously satirical cartoons about the do's and don'ts of parenting, probably paying homage to the parents who don't have a clue. Scroll through and laugh at these tips and tricks for keeping your children alive.

If your school was anything like mine, you probably didn't get much sex-ed in school. I vaguely remember mine consisting of our biology teacher standing awkwardly at the front of the classroom, pointing to diagrams of the male and female anatomy, clearly wishing the floor would swallow her up. The rest was down to our self- discovery and whatever rumors we heard that week. Some real education about healthy sexual relationships would have been useful because, as a teenager and young adult, you are vulnerable to pressures and expectations. A funny AskReddit thread asking people for the WORST advice you can give a virgin for their first time highlights how damaging the porn industry is on healthy sexual expectations. And, in turn, the amount of misinformation and dangerous messages young people are receiving about sex.

Marriage is a beautiful thing: the meeting of two minds, souls and hearts. Although it's an exciting stage of life, before you make the big decision and tie the knot, there are some pretty important conversations you need to have with your partner to make sure you're on the same page about life's big issues. A helpful Twitter thread has gone viral, which contains many of these topics, including debt, cheating, kids, education, and religion. Scroll to read these pearls of wisdom and see how many of them you agree with. 

As we grow up, we gain insight and wisdom into the realities of the world. Life is wonderful but tough and when we're teenagers, we think we're invincible and that we know everything. If only we could go back in time and give ourselves some advice on how better to prepare for the future... well, these Redditors share what they would say to their 15-year-old selves for one minute if they could and the answers are pretty grounding. What piece of advice would you give your teenage self?

Dating in 2020 isn't easy. Between the endless Tinder swipes and empty hookups, it's a wonder anyone finds love nowadays. But I refuse to believe that it's impossible and I firmly hold onto the idea that true romance is still achievable. But has love always been this hard to find? It would seem so... a magazine article titled '129 Ways to Get a Husband' was discovered in a 1958 edition of American magazine McCall's. These ⁠— quite frankly ⁠— sexist and offensive tips are hilarious to look through now and see how women were encouraged to find love back in the day. I've decided to go through one tip and a time and see whether or not it would actually work in 2020. Let's take a look at tip #9...

In 2012, the invention of Tinder changed the landscape of love, dating, and relationships as we know it. Gone are the days where flirting required real-life, face-to-face interaction — instead, welcome to the age of virtual romance, where your next hook up is only one swipe away. As a woman who uses dating apps, I know how easy it is to feel like a small disposable fish in an endlessly big pond of younger, better looking, and more heavily photoshopped fish. But I often wonder if courtship was really that much easier before online dating took over, or whether the struggle to find good-quality men has been one that women have faced since the dawn of time...?

In 2012, the invention of Tinder changed the landscape of love, dating, and relationships as we know it. Gone are the days where flirting required real-life, face-to-face interaction and welcome to the age of virtual romance, where your next hook up is only one swipe away. As a woman who uses dating apps, it's easy to feel like a small disposable fish in an endlessly big pond of younger, better looking, and more heavily photoshopped fish. I often wonder if courtship was really that much easier before online dating took over, or has the struggle to find good-quality men been one that women have faced since the dawn of time...?

Life is full of lessons. Whether we learn them through tragedy, heartbreak, or love, we pick up some pearls of wisdom along the way. A Reddit thread asking people to share the best advice they could give anyone shows just how much life can teach us, how much we take for granted and how powerful the benefit of hindsight is. Check out some of the most impressive ones below.