Why Did My Birth Son Invite Me to a Wedding and Then Seat Me in Siberia?
Reunited with her son after half a century, a reader feels slighted by her seat at a family wedding, where her son’s wife had already made her feel less than welcome.
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My Brother-in-Law Gets Free Child Care From His Parents. Why Don’t We?
Frustrated that she and her partner live too far away from his parents to reap the benefits of free grandparental supervision, a reader wonders how to broach her feelings of being cheated.
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How Could My Brother-in-Law’s Twin Abandon Him During Cancer Treatment?
After offering his brother lodging for his course of radiation therapy, the man informed him — with one day’s notice — that the invitation was contingent on an apology for a long-forgotten letter.
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Crying at Work and Other Experiments in Emotion
A member of a laboratory team wants her colleagues to share their feelings on the job.