Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: I have a casual friend who won’t stop giving me excessive gifts, even after I have asked her to stop. We take morning walks together, but we do not share any other social activities. She
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: I wonder if my expectations are too high, or if my wife is controlling me. I do not feel welcome in my own house. Every week my wife asks me for my schedule (I am
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: A dear friend has a husband who is an alcoholic. During any kind of get together he is loud, belligerent and on occasion becomes incapacitated and has to be carried out. Before my friend and
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: I am a hard worker. I try not to let my personal life affect my job. However, the one thing that I cannot control is one of my three children getting sent home sick from
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: My husband and I own a small family business, but we don’t run the day-to-day operation. We started the business with one of our sons, and he worked very hard for the first three or
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: My wife and I have been married for 48 years. In one sense, we are very much committed to each other, however, we have not had sex in more than 20 years and have been
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: I recently did DNA ancestry testing, hoping to locate relatives of my father, who died when I was very young. To my surprise, I found out that I have a niece. I have one brother,
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: Over the course of our 16-year marriage, my ex-husband often acted impulsively, in ways that were perhaps explained but not excused by his bipolar disorder. Just after our second child was born, he kissed and
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: My nephew recently reported that no, he wouldn’t pick up his 77-year-old mother from the airport. “Besides,” he said, “It’s easier to get a taxi, Uber or Lyft.” To that remark, I say: “Easier for
Comment on this story Comment Dear Amy: My husband’s sister is getting married in a year. She is requiring all of the mothers at her wedding to wear a specific color and style of dress. I am not in the wedding so