A reader has been feeling left out by her husband’s siblings-only dinners — and never more so than when her brother-in-law crashed a recent get-together.

Although his wife has long maintained that she doesn’t want to know the identity of her birth father, a reader is tempted to find out...

A reader is torn between attending a final dinner with his uncle, who has terminal cancer, and supporting his father, who wasn’t invited because of...

A reader’s wife sees bigotry in their exclusion from group photos at a nephew’s wedding, but her husband is reluctant to write off his relatives...

A reader is angered by friends who list their homes with other real estate brokers — sometimes without giving his husband a chance to make...

A reader’s feelings are hurt after offering to fly to celebrate her sister’s 70th birthday only to be told not to bother, as “all her...

Two years after one of her children received a generous birthday gift, a reader wonders whether to intervene on behalf of her overlooked child.

Four years after being laid off, a man in his 50s is still relying on his father, who just moved into an assisted living facility,...

Parents who enjoy an otherwise close relationship with their 33-year-old daughter feel hurt not to have been introduced to a man she met three months...

Put off by pitying displays of concern for her son’s paralysis, a reader wonders how to handle a well-meaning friend whose support misses the mark.