I’m having a problem that feels small, but it’s starting to make me dread seeing someone I care about. One of my closest ...
Dear Annie: My sister and I have always been close, or at least I thought we were. Lately, though, every conversation turns ...
A good neighbor can keep a beat without beating down the neighbors.
My husband and I have been married for 18 years and generally have a good life together, but we cannot agree on one thing: ...
My neighbor has taken “borrowing a cup of sugar” to ridiculous levels. In the past six months, she’s borrowed my ladder, my ...
Note: This column was originally published in 2023. Dear Annie: After dating a guy who turned out to be a narcissist, my question is, how can I heal? I’ve tried everything, and I’ve even felt like I’m ...
Dear Annie: I’m a 75-year-old widow who has lived in the same little Cape for 43 years. I still do my own shopping, I drive myself to church, and I host Sunday supper when my joints cooperate. I’m not ...
This time of year, my inbox fills with the same quiet sentence written a hundred different ways: “I’m tired of being the reasonable one.” It comes from the woman hosting Sunday dinner who gets ...
DEAR ANNIE: From the outside, my life looks like the kind of “before” photo people put in gratitude journals. I have a husband who is genuinely kind, kids who still call and actually want to tell me ...
Dear Annie: Now that my husband and I are in our 70s, it feels as if our social world has shrunk to the size of a postage stamp. Friends have moved away to be near their children, others are dealing ...
Dear Annie: Here’s my dilemma: I moved back into my dad’s house several years ago, and he has been good friends with “Chuck” and his wife “Rose” for at least 20 years. He goes out to dinner with them ...