A bride-to-be has trouble accepting a future relative’s decision to miss her wedding because of a scheduling conflict with a newly landed dream job.

After nine years of regular visits from his children, now 19 and 23, a father is steamed by his partner’s suggestion that he book a...

A reader feels spurned by a friend’s “self-righteous” declaration that she would no longer engage with him about politics after he revealed he didn’t plan...

A young reader variously subjected to cruel words and the silent treatment is reaching the end of her rope with her mother, who has portrayed...

A reader who has already contracted colds and the flu from her 18-month-old grandchild is flustered by her daughter’s indifference to her health concerns.

A reader asks for help setting boundaries with her husband’s mother, who has floated the idea of a lengthy stay with the couple after the...

A wife feels disgusted and betrayed after discovering a lurid image of another woman on her husband’s computer screen, and worries that he may have...

A father objects to his son’s punishment after a rowdy “tickle fight” in a darkened room, but an adviser isn’t budging on the decision to...

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...

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,...