Advice Smackdown UPDATES!
Everybody’s favorite! Reader-submitted updates on past columns, questions and queries.
Everybody’s favorite! Reader-submitted updates on past columns, questions and queries.
I just found out — thanks to Facebook — that one of my best friends is getting married. And I’m not invited. What happened??
After years of dealing with an overly-competitive sister-in-law, treading on our baby name turf is the last straw! What do I do?
My friend’s father just died after a long battle with cancer. What can I do for her and her family? How can I be a help and not a burden?
An update from one of our most memorable Advice Smackdown columns: The pregnant mom faced with a husband in rehab on her due date.
Only three people came to my baby shower and I’m having a really hard time dealing with the disappointment. How can I make myself get over this?
My husband lost his mother several years ago and won’t put any effort into Mother’s Day…but I’m a mother now too!
There are valuable lessons to be learned in all of our relationships, romantic and otherwise. And like so many other things that I was so sure about, I changed my mind. Here are the reasons I let my children “date.”
My in-laws are absolutely, fundamentally untrustworthy caretakers for my child. But my husband is insisting we let them babysit while we travel overseas! What do I do?
I want another child and he doesn’t, at all. Can this relationship be saved?
My husband blames ME for our daughter’s whining and crying. Could it really be my fault?
My aunt is using my blog and Facebook against me, all because I didn’t send a stranger a baby shower gift! What do I do?
I’m trying to develop friendships with other families now so our kids will have a network for support later.
Help! My mother-in-law is an honest-to-God criminal, and my husband wants her to move in with us.
When one parent is ill and the other is in denial…when is it time to step in and start caring for the caretaker?
When a family feud starts causing collateral damage among the younger generation.
How do you balance respecting other’s feelings and recognizing the child you lost? Cecily of Uppercase Woman provides some guidance.
My sister died and now my niece’s father is trying to keep me from being a part of her life. Is there anything I can do?
The baby isn’t even born yet, but this mom-to-be is already embroiled in warring factions of culture, religion and big fat catered affairs.
It seems like apologizing would be something easy to do, but it isn’t. So just how do you apologize? I have compiled some rules for you to follow.