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.
Amalah tackles a common problem: disagreements over household division of responsibilities between out-of-the-home-working and stay-at-home parents.
A new mom doesn’t want to her well-known family drama to bleed into and taint her daughter’s first birthday party. How can she maintain the peace?
What to do when it’s more than meddling by your mother-in-law and you have legitimate concerns about the whether your child is safe in her care.
We have some advice on how to cut someone out of your life after they’ve already cut you out of theirs.
An expectant mom is experiencing high anxiety from the extraordinary amount of very detailed and unsolicited advice she is getting from her mother and in-laws so early in her pregnancy. She needs help setting boundaries.
Can this grandparent relationship be saved?
A new mother needs wants to know how to stick to her decision to keep away from her toxic family. We have some advice on where to start.
A reader is worried her young teen son’s girlfriend is a bad influence; there’s lots to unpack, here, but I give it my best shot.
A new mom is in the middle of a War of the Roses in her family and needs advice on how to not let it affect her life and family relationships.
A divorced mom needs advice on establishing boundaries with her ex-husband (and the father of her children) who continues to emotionally abuse and manipulate her.
Parents need advice on how to handle grandparents who brush off their neighbor’s creepy comments about their child.
When you know you need to set boundaries with your mother-in-law, especially as life becomes more intertwined with a baby on the way, but don’t know how.
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 mom is stuck in an awkward family situation with an in-law who is holding an unreasonable grudge. What can she do to make future family gatherings tolerable?
Help! My mother-in-law is an honest-to-God criminal, and my husband wants her to move in with us.
A new mom needs help from her boundary-busting mother-in-law who continues to defy her wishes but also has terrible judgment around her baby.
When parental favoritism by in-laws is making its way overseas and exacerbating family drama.
Now that she’s expecting, a mom-to-be needs advice on how to maintain her relationship with one family member given that she has cut ties with all the rest of the toxic family.
A mom-to-be needs impartial advice on how to handle her husband who is holding out hope that his mother will change stop being mean towards her once her baby is born. How can she protect her feelings and her baby from her toxic mother-in-law?
A mom needs help dealing with dealing with her abusive father in light of her family ignoring the problem completely and especially now that she has kids of her own.