When an ex returns from out of the blue with the same drinking problem but a new desire to be in his daughter’s life, a reader is unsure how best to protect her child.
Mindful of costs, a reader wonders whether she and her husband are obligated to extend the same hospitality to their daughter’s best friend as to their son’s partner.
This week, a blind date gone wrong, a mother-in-law who can’t understand why a stay-at-home mom won’t regularly drive several hours to do unpaid elder care, and a letter writer searching for a polite way to insult their neighbors on social media.
A reader asks whether she has to apologize after recounting a joke that used racist language in front of her son’s friend, who later said he had felt unsafe.
A reader’s adult stepchildren want nothing to do with her or their father after learning that the couple plan to leave their estates to each other. Should he reach out?