Boyfriend refuses to believe the letter writer’s relationship with her lifelong, male best friend is strictly platonic.

Dear Carolyn: My whole life, it has always been just me and moms. My mom grew up in foster care and doesn’t have contact with ...

A letter writer and her husband disagree on charging their daughter rent after footing the bill for her master’s degree.

Judging from letters to advice columnist Carolyn Hax, this monumental change is one people both dread and work their whole ...

As daughter plans an event to introduce everyone to her much-older boyfriend, her parent thinks just her friends should be ...

Letter writer acts out explosively, blames resentment on wife who won’t “work harder to make me feel like a priority.” ...

Late sister’s widower has started dating years after her death, and the letter writer is “embarrassed” by family’s icy ...

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Letter writer is marrying a trans man and doesn’t want her bigoted aunt at the wedding, but her father wants to invite her.

Q: My wife, “Lisa,” and I have been happily married for 30 years, raised three great children and look forward to a very comfortable retirement. I couldn’t have asked for a better wife and p ...

It’s another for you to look at my family and think: greedy, excessive, toxic, too much, useless, damaging. Uhh. Maybe we can work together, but you know what? Don’t bother. I’d rather tell ...