A reader’s adult stepchildren want nothing to do with her or their father after learning that the couple plan to leave their estates to each other. Should he reach out?

Put off by her fiancé’s request for a prenuptial agreement after years of paying her own way, a reader is finding that resentment is crowding out her excitement.

After witnessing her father at a motel with a woman who was not her mother, a young reader describes experiencing near-daily guilt about not having spoken up.

A reader is left to make new arrangements after learning that her boyfriend, who had agreed to live with her for the summer, was jockeying for an internship in Washington.