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A reader asks whether she has to apologize after recounting a joke that used racist language in front of her son’s friend, who later said...

A reader’s adult stepchildren want nothing to do with her or their father after learning that the couple plan to leave their estates to each...

Put off by her fiancé’s request for a prenuptial agreement after years of paying her own way, a reader is finding that resentment is crowding...

After witnessing her father at a motel with a woman who was not her mother, a young reader describes experiencing near-daily guilt about not having...

A reader is left to make new arrangements after learning that her boyfriend, who had agreed to live with her for the summer, was jockeying...

A reader eager to be freed from $100,000 worth of co-signer responsibilities seeks a judgment on her daughter’s behavior.

Eager not to participate in his husband’s junk-food habit, a reader hesitates to draw a line in the sand, stung by memories of disagreements over...

A reader who has been dating her boyfriend for a year is unsure of how to negotiate his grief over the death of his wife,...

An email from her husband’s visiting boss about a higher-than-expected charge from dinner rattled a reader enough to send a check. Was it an overreaction?

A reader doing battle with 25 percent annual interest is tempted by her boyfriend’s offer of an interest-free loan, but she worries it may be...