A high school friend whose wife skipped the wedding to stay home with the couple’s children showed up drunk to the reception and hit on guests.

Dear James, How can I put this without sounding like a harridan? With few exceptions, my male friends seem incapable of ...

A mother wonders whether such an offer from her well-off son would be overstepping, and if not, whether she should be the one to float the idea.

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Dear James, I have a literary crush. Since first encountering this woman’s work several years ago, I have read her sentences aloud to more friends, acquaintances, and pets than I can count. At the end ...

Which is not the case here. You and your boyfriend—and I’m painting a nice, possibly completely erroneous, picture of him in ...