I Tried to Get Along With Every Other Mother and Then I Came to My Senses
Getting along with other mothers and why you shouldn’t sweat it if you don’t.
Getting along with other mothers and why you shouldn’t sweat it if you don’t.
Another day, another horrible sea-monster of a mother-in-law. How to handle a difficult mother-in-law and preventing bad repercussions on your marriage.
My newborn has colic and now my family is hanging out without me! Are postpartum hormones just making me oversensitive? Please help.
What’s a fair and realistic division of household responsibility when one parent stays home and the other works outside of the home?
The holidays are around the corner and my relationship with my husband’s family is a mess. How can I fix this? Should I fix this?
A mother-in-law writes in for advice about a daughter-in-law who plays favorites and keeps her from spending enough time with her grandchild.
I thought we had a good relationship with my husband’s brother and his family. And then everything went wrong.
Ideas for filling that post-kid-bedtime block with activities OTHER than falling asleep in front of the TV.
What do you do when granddad has a girlfriend and your child doesn’t want to share attention, and honestly speaking you’re not ready to either?
An expectant mom is trying anticipate the balance between her need and wanting of help from her own mom and her husband’s need to private family time on the second time around.
A new mom-to-be is not only growing her family but contemplating growing her financial responsibilities by helping her aging parents. Her husband is not on board with the latter. She needs our objective opinions and advice.
This expecting mother is receiving hurtful comments from her future in-laws about their lifestyle and parenting choices (already!). Amalah provides some guidelines for navigating that tense relationship.
My mother-in-law will be caring for my baby daily when my maternity leave ends. How do I set-up appropriate boundaries and manage that tricky relationship?
Teaching kids about love and happy relationships when we’re still figuring it out ourselves.
A mom-to-be has abandoned a toxic support group but continues her friendship with another former support group member. But, that friend continues to gossip about our former group and I just can’t take it anymore. What should I do?
A young neighborhood kid doesn’t seem to understand and respect boundaries and his parents don’t seem to care. How should I handle this sticky situation?
My estranged parents want to build a relationship with me and my infant twins. But they still don’t want to accept my partner as a mother to our sons. I find this unacceptable. I need your advice.
I hope that someday my children find life partners who make them happy. I hope that I’m setting a good example for them to figure that out, too.
My parents are secretly planning to move near my immediate family. They are functional alcoholics and the stress of them pressuring to consistently babysit my young son is leading me to actually consider moving out-of-state.
A young bride-to-be is distressed because she wants to have four children and her fiance wants two, maybe three. Should disagreeing on family size be a dealbreaker?