Dear Amy: I raised my three children to be self-sufficient and polite.
Dear Amy: My father and I have a rather skewed relationship. It feels more like employer and employee than father and son.
Dear Amy: My fiance and I have been together for three years; I have a 5-year-old from a previous relationship and we have a 1-year-old together.
Dear Amy: I'm very confused about what to do. When I was 16 my late mother told me the man that was raising me was possibly NOT my biological father.
Dear Amy: I am close with my 42-year-old cousin. She is in a serious relationship with a 52-year-old man she has been dating for six months.
Dear Amy: My 10-year-old daughter, "Amber," has a good friend, "Hannah." They play well together, and are extremely bright and creative. Over the past few months, they have started having more frequent play dates and sleepovers on the weekends and this is where the problem begins.
Dear Amy: My husband and I are discussing Christmas Eve plans. Normally, his extended family comes to our home.
Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I are in our 50s. We have known each other for 15 years, but started dating two years ago after my divorce (my boyfriend has never married).
Dear Amy: I have a very wealthy aunt and uncle to whom my husband I have recently grown close. We moved to their area last year. They have been very generous in helping us get settled. We go out to dinner with them once in a while, or visit at their home (they sometimes come to ours, but seem...
Dear Amy: I have been planning a four-day weekend getaway with my wife to celebrate our 20th anniversary. We have school-age children and work full time. We decided we owed ourselves a little enjoyment on a milestone anniversary.
Dear Amy: I am in my 50s. Five years ago my wonderful mother died. She was gorgeous, funny, smart, a gourmet cook. She and I talked on the phone — sometimes several times a day. I miss her very much.
Dear Amy: My almost-25-year-old daughter is involved in a live-in relationship with a 36-year-old man who professes to be bisexual.
Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I hosted a party. We consumed lots of alcohol. My boyfriend was drunk and started fighting with his friend. He was abusive toward me. He took my hand and punched himself with it, and I began to cry.
Dear Amy: My husband of five years is addicted to marijuana. We have an 8-month-old daughter.
Dear Amy: My 18-year-old son started college this year. He has a part-time job and is paying for a new car to drive to school 30 miles from home. He lives at home, but makes bad choices by smoking pot!
Dear Amy: I am having trouble communicating with my mom. I moved to California when I was 18 (my parents live in another state), and I started from the bottom and made a name for myself here.
Dear Amy: I'm a woman in my late 20s. For several years, my friend "Terence" has always been there for me. He has helped when I've gone through breakups, when my mother had cancer and when my house was vandalized and all my stuff was stolen.
Dear Amy: My sister's ex-husband tried to molest me from the time I was 11 years old until I was 17. It never went beyond forced kissing and touching, and I never told my parents or my sister because I was afraid that my father would literally kill him.
Dear Amy: Recently my husband and I decided we wanted to have another baby. A few days ago we learned that I'm pregnant.
Dear Amy: I recently joined a wonderful family when I married a great man.
Dear Amy: I've been dating a guy for two months. He is funny, smart, drop-dead handsome, generous and really good to me.
Dear Amy: I'm a single mother of three who has been dating a single father of three, on and off, for just over a year. We both have good careers.
Dear Amy: My grown son (32) has chosen to not speak to me for the past five years. We live in the same town.
Dear Amy: My adult daughter, 23, suffered a bout of severe alcohol dependency two years ago. She went through rehab successfully, and today she remains sober.
Dear Amy: My boyfriend and I have been dating for 31/2 years. When he was 20 his casual girlfriend became pregnant and had a baby. His daughter is now 7, but the child's mother is controlling and wouldn't let my boyfriend see his daughter alone.