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,...

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...

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...

A reader is less than comfortable sleeping feet away from her partner’s adult siblings (and their partners), but is it worth it to keep the...

Her bitter comments and antisocial behavior may spring from discomfort around her high-achieving friends, but that doesn’t make her any easier to deal with.