My Son Wants to Pay for His Sister to Freeze Her Eggs. Too Weird?
A mother wonders whether such an offer from her well-off son would be overstepping, and if not, whether she should be the one to float the idea.
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Our Only Friends Went Away for the Weekend Without Us. We’re Hurt!
Adjusting to life in a new city, a couple was stung to learn that the only people they know in town, the husband’s childhood friends, didn’t invite them on a recent getaway.
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My Brother and Sister-in-Law No Longer Want to Put Me Up. I’m Hurt!
A reader feels stung by her brother and his wife’s cooling to an idea that they had once seemed open to: hosting her once a month when she commutes to a faraway office job.
My Two Best Friends Started Dating Each Other. I’m Livid!
Feeling slighted after a former flame paired up with an old friend she met through him, a middle-aged reader cut off contact with both. So why does he feel so bad?