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.

A reader had hoped that her grandmother’s ring would stay in the family, perhaps to pass on to her daughter, but her former sister-in-law has...

After supporting an old friend through years of incarceration with letters and shipments of books, a reader wants out, put off by the woman’s lies...

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...

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...