Advice for Life

A Navy SEAL frogman in the water. For Ask Amy, Son’s SEAL Plans Worry His Parents
Advice for Life

Son’s SEAL Plans Worry His Parents

He should ‘use his brain instead of his physical abilities,’ they say

By Amy Dickinson | January 5, 2024
a man scolding his elderly in-laws. By Iakov Filimonov
Advice for Life

Elderly In-Laws Are a Problem – Or Is He?

Their son-in-law has lost patience with them, and with his wife

By Amy Dickinson | December 29, 2023
A couple fighting over money. Image by Kari Aun. After a late-in-life marriage, a wife has discovered that after they commingled finances, her husband began overspending – and now he is secretive about his expenses.
Advice for Life

Commingled Finances Causing Marital Problems

Should the wife be worried?

By Amy Dickinson | December 29, 2023
Grandmother and grand baby face to face smiling. By Monkey Business Images. Article on when a mother wants grandkids and pressures her daughter
Advice for Life

Mother Wants Grandkids

Does the daughter “owe” her?

By Amy Dickinson | December 22, 2023
candlelight dinner party, by Mykyta Starychenko. Article on exhausted holiday hostess
Advice for Life

Exhausted Holiday Hostess

Guests asking to bring guests is driving her over the edge

By Amy Dickinson | December 16, 2023
A mother and daughter visiting on a sofa at home. Image by motortion. Article: Is Daughter Caring or Judgmental?
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Is Daughter Caring or Judgmental?

Expressing concern for her mother’s health choices

By Amy Dickinson | December 8, 2023
unhappy daughter and mother, image by Monkey Business Images. Article: 54-Year-Old Mother Wants Another Child
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54-Year-Old Mother Wants Another Child

Despite pushback from the rest of the family

December 1, 2023
female cancer survivor on her sofa at home, for article on managing unwanted weight loss compliments. Image by Wichayada Sunwannachun
Advice for Life

Dealing with Unwanted Weight Loss Compliments

Another good old Southern comeback besides ‘bless her heart’

By Amy Dickinson | November 24, 2023
A loving couple in an embrace, for an article on a couple who was disappointed in a narcissistic friend and wonders if the behavior is a friendship-ender. Image by Yuri Arcurs
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Narcissistic Behavior May Be a Friendship-Ender

‘Are we unreasonable for feeling this way?’

By Amy Dickinson | November 17, 2023
two women outside, engaged in conversation: insensitive friends gossiping to each other.
Advice for Life

Insensitive Friends Are Driving Her Nuts

She wonders how to move past their disrespectful actions

By Amy Dickinson | November 10, 2023

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