Relationships
A Stay-at-Home Mom is NOT a Stay-at-Home Maid
A stay-at-home-mom needs advice on dealing with her husband’s refusal to help out at home and the ensuing arguments.
Relationships
Sharing the Work of Parenting: What I Learned By Giving My Partner Some Room
What I learned when I stopped hovering and started giving my partner some room to be the parent they always were.
Relationships
The Dad Who Just Doesn’t Want to Dad
A mom asks for advice about her husband who doesn’t help with their son and has difficulty when her toddler acts, well, like a toddler. She’s concerned about now and the future.
Big Kid
Thoughts From An Almost-Empty Nest
I never felt like the years were flying by until now, and with my kids finishing up high school, we’re thinking about what comes next after they go.
Relationships
When Your Partner Takes Your MIL’s Side
A mom needs new advice on how to handle her relationship with her husband which takes a turn for the toxic when even talk of her in-laws enters the conversation let alone visiting them.
Relationships
When Daddy’s Drinking Is a Problem
Her husband’s casual drinking has escalated into more intense imbibing and is a co-parenting and relationship problem now that there’s an infant at home. What can this new mom do? We have some practical advice.
Parenting
Making an Interfaith Marriage Work and Surviving the Challenges That Come Later On
Practical ideas from experts on how to make an interfaith marriage and family work through the years.
Relationships
Can a Marriage Survive an Affair During Pregnancy?
A new mom is struggling with a very difficult relationship issue and is looking for some outside perspective.
Parenting
An International In-Law Tug-of-War
A mom needs advice on how to stand up to her husband who is pressuring her to send their toddler to live with his grandparents to live abroad.
Pregnancy
What I Know About Divorce and Children
From a matrimonial and family lawyer with over two decades of experience, here are her suggestions regarding children and divorce and what you should know.
Parenting
Beyond Date Night: Nurturing Your Partnership Amid Life/Parenting Frenzy
A reader asks for advice on finding the time/ways to focus on her marriage amid the craziness of constant parenting other other life demands. It can be done!
Your Life
This is a Story About a Bunch of “Probably Nothing”s
There’s nothing like a few little health scares to make you think about your assumptions and the future.
Big Kid
Hanging on for Dear Life in the River of Busy
In a two-career, two-teenager household, is it possible to step back from an atmosphere of constant “busy?” Maybe not, but I’m trying.
Relationships
The Unhappy Housewife-to-Be
Amalah tackles a common problem: disagreements over household division of responsibilities between out-of-the-home-working and stay-at-home parents.
Relationships
Update On: The Homeless In-Laws
An update from a letter writer on a particularly hairy and sticky family situation and lessons learned for the future.
Your Life
Getting a Night Away: Why Parents Should Try To Make It Happen
Sure, you keep saying you and partner need some time away from the kids but here’s why you really need to do it.
Relationships
Father (Thinks He) Knows Best
A mom is starting to climb out of postpartum depression and is having a hard time getting her husband’s support for alone time for self-care.
Relationships
Having a Midlife Crisis? Here’s What To Do.
When you think of a midlife crisis, you think of a guy who goes out to suddenly acquire a sports car and a trophy wife. But women have midlife crises too. And here’s what to do about it.
Relationships
Helping a Spouse (or Significant Other/Partner) in Crisis
You can feel very helpless when a spouse (or significant other/partner) is in crisis. And it’s not always clear how to help them. But there is actually something you can do.
Relationships
Help! We’re Moving & Driving Each Other Crazy!
Next month, my husband and I are moving our small family about an hour away from where we are now. My husband and I are taking very different packing approaches in how we’re preparing for his this move and we’re driving each other crazy because of it. How can we make this go smoother for our sanity?