Dear Amy: My children and I have always spent a lot of time together and we connect through text or phone calls almost daily. My husband believes this is excessive.
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Ask Amy: Wife wants to open up marriage
Dear Amy: I’ve heard about open marriages, of course, but what does this even mean?
Ask Amy: How to deal with manipulative mother
Dear Tricked: Your mother pushes your buttons because of her history of being manipulative, at least when it comes to you.
Ask Amy: Maid of honor’s plus one not invited to wedding
Dear Amy: Last week, Chloe texted me to say that she has just sent out the invitations and that my very steady boyfriend of several years has not been invited.
Ask Amy: Mother-in-law unit being used by friends
Dear Amy: Are we wrong to ask them not to have guests stay in our place?
Ask Amy: My sons are not speaking to one another
Dear Amy: I asked my sons to forgive one another and to move forward so that our family can be back to normal. They declined.
Ask Amy: Young son doesn’t want to grow up
Dear Amy: Recently he has been emotional and sensitive. He has said several times that he doesn’t want to grow up. When I ask him why, he says he’ll miss all of the things we do together, like reading together before bed and cuddling with us, and doing “little boy things.”
Ask Amy: I don’t want to hang out with my girlfriend’s nieces
Dear Amy: As a happily childfree man in his 40s, I have no desire to spend my Saturday watching kids play in a crowded play space.
Ask Amy: I can’t stand my father’s wife but want to say goodbye to him
After our “guests” departed my wife dropped a bomb on me. Apparently, my father’s wife had spent the week trashing both my father and me to my wife. She advised my wife to divorce me and to “take him for everything you can.”
Ask Amy: In this new town and new position, I am lonely
Dear Amy: I moved to a semi-rural area for a public-facing job. One way I am trying to meet people is by hosting small dinner gatherings where I invite a group of people whom I think might make for interesting conversation. These people may or may not already know each other. This almost never works out. I’ve […]