Category: Ask Amy

Dear Amy: When our son visits us with his teenage daughter, she totally trashes her room during her stay.

Dear Amy: My husband’s friend grabbed my face with both hands and kissed me full on the mouth.

Dear Amy: Should I go along with this, or is there a nice way to say that the child means nothing to me, so I’m not interested in doing it?

Dear Readers: A recent question from “Not So Empty Nest Mom” sought solutions on how to deal with her two adult daughters’ stuff, which was currently filling the family garage after the daughters had left home.

Dear Amy: I am an art historian, out of graduate school for about five years. I am now pursuing my Ph.D., also teaching, and am starting to get invited to do presentations and sit on panels at academic conferences.

Dear Amy: She refuses to share many details – just that Jonas and his partner are together in name only, and he plans to end it officially now.

Dear Amy: My father in-law is a retired law enforcement officer. Due to scientific advances since his retirement, it turns out that much of his career was a sham. DNA evidence has exonerated many of the people that he put behind bars – to such a large extent that a television network chose to air a story about him and his corrupt practices a number of years ago.

Dear Amy: I was so sad and embarrassed to learn that my ex-husband was involved in corporate crimes during the time we were married.

Dear Amy: My husband and I don’t have children. My sister is a single mom and she has always been strict with her children. She has a rule for her kids that when they turn 18, they either pay rent or move out.