Amy Dickinson

Dear Amy: I stopped saying hello because I wanted him to get the hint: I’m not interested, so leave me alone. And yet, he keeps persisting; his behavior is getting...

Dear Amy: I mentioned how the lease to my barely affordable apartment would expire soon. He then offered to let me live with him – for free! Wow!

Dear Amy: My one issue is our daughter-in-law. While sweet as she can be, she video calls every day, often more than once, to recite the minutiae of her day....

Dear Amy: My wife makes the case that they are practically living together in college. While I acknowledge this, I feel uncomfortable with explicitly allowing them to sleep together in...

Dear Amy: My boyfriend of 10 years (with a few breaks) does not have a close relationship with his parents and really no relationship at all with his two siblings.

Dear Amy: My husband has a serious drinking problem which I have tolerated for decades. He has called me nasty and vulgar names, and now does nothing but watch TV...

Dear Amy: I don’t want my brother and his fiance to feel pressured to give me a special job, but I would like to be helpful.

Dear Amy: I just don’t know how to get this lady to leave me alone.

Dear Amy: My husband and I joke to him that we need some grandchildren soon (he is our only child) and we all laugh it off without any real responses.

Dear Amy: When our son visits us with his teenage daughter, she totally trashes her room during her stay.