Dear Amy: I am an art historian, out of graduate school for about five years. I am now pursuing my Ph.D., also teaching, and am starting to get invited to do presentations and sit on panels at academic conferences.
He is taking this personally, and I don’t know how to explain to him that it’s not personal – I just don’t want to do it.Dear Nervous: Adults don’t accompany one another on business trips. With rare exceptions, it is considered unprofessional to bring a “plus-one.” Dear Amy: A little over two years ago I made a comment to our daughter-in-law, telling her that I thought she was being overly harsh toward our eight-year-old granddaughter concerning what I considered to be a trivial matter.
I’m not sure why you need another person to run interference when you could simply express your desire to put this behind you in a letter or email.