DEAR IN THE MIDDLE: This romance is in its infancy. You have been widowed for only 10 months. There’s wisdom in the adage ...

I made a comment about her paying for a $5 coffee for her brother, and she became highly offended. (I knew she would be, so I ...

DEAR ONLY: Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your partner. You stated that his death was recent and traumatic.

"For reasons I could never understand, my mother didn’t enjoy my children when they were growing up and didn’t connect deeply ...

DEAR DAUGHTER: Your only responsibility is to remind your mother of the truth. When it was time to establish a relationship ...

"I feel deeply shafted by his secrecy, and I don’t see it as such a private matter that it had to be concealed." ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.