Dear Queenie,
One of my friends always has some nasty comment about anything I tell him.
Queenie, I don’t want to offend him but I don’t want to stop being friends with him. What can I do?—Fed-up friend
Dear Fed-up friend,
Tell him calmly how you feel about his comments and hope your friendship survives. If it does not, you have my condolences, but sometimes that is the way things go.