“My Friend Became a Liberal and Now Refuses to Talk to Me”

I’ve been very close friends with both “Molly” and “Sarah” for over fifteen years. Sarah is married to Molly’s brother, so they are both friends and sisters-in-law. We are very close to each other and with each others’ families. About two years ago, Molly moved away to a major city and became extremely liberal, which is fine. I was happy that she was growing as a person and finding her own way in life. However, our friendship began to be strained around the 2016 election. We have very different political views, which I am totally OK with but Molly is not. She stopped speaking to me the day of President Trump’s inauguration,…

“My Mother Says I’m Killing My Brother By Withholding My Daughter”

I have a 3-year-old daughter and have been married to my husband for two years (he adopted my daughter after we got married). I am five months pregnant with our second child and we couldn’t be happier. Before I met my husband, I lived with my parents, who live in the same town as we do. I moved back home because I thought it would be hard raising my daughter without support. It had nothing to do with my financial situation, as I have my masters and make good money. When my daughter was four months old, my youngest brother, 23 at the time, also lived at home and was diagnosed with…

“My New Husband’s Daughters Want Nothing to Do With Me”

My husband and I have been married for eight months now. We are crazy in love with each other. My husband is a widower, and he and his late wife were married for twenty-nine years. For the last five years of their marriage he lived out of state and she stayed “home.” This was due to his losing his job and needing to support the family. She stayed home because she didn’t want to leave when he got a new job. The kids were almost out of college. Unfortunately, she passed away, and we found each other pretty soon — six months — after her passing. We fell in love, and two…

“How Do I Make Him Feel the Lack of Me?”

Today’s letters are in honor of all the young women 25 and under who are struggling in love, throwing themselves at guys who give them barely a hint of recognition, hanging the whole value of themselves on whether or not their feelings for some guy are reciprocated, imagining their lives as essentially over if their future does not include the guy who only calls at night when he’s a little drunk and kind of horny. Ladies, I see you, I hear you, I was you once. Consider me the ghost of Christmas Future here with a message for you: It gets better. Your feelings for the guy who only calls at night…

“I’m Tired of Waiting for Him to Propose”

I have been in a very committed relationship for almost seven years now; I am a 26-year-old female, he is 34. About two years into the relationship he starting discussing marriage, we started looking at rings, and he brought that whole idea into my head. Years have past, and I’m still waiting. About a year ago, daily comments from people about why I was not married started eating at me. Why did he talk about “when we are married” and “our children” and “our future” and know how important marriage was only to make me keep waiting? Depressed and anxious, I questioned if we were on the same page which he followed…

“My Siblings Think I’m a Bad Mother”

I am 57 years old with three adult children. I was divorced four years ago, which was not my choice. My siblings seem to think they have all the “right answers” for my adult kids. I have not asked them for advice. My older sister, who is well-meaning but also aggressive and controlling, has had a relationship with my kids since they were small. She was a great aunt and would take them out to places as she didn’t have any kids of her own and still does not. That’s OK with me; she was a career person, got married at 40, and she and her husband are a happy couple. She…

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