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A reader was shocked and infuriated when she wasn't consulted before her 10-year-old was given a melatonin supplement at a sleepover. My 10-year-old daughter attended a sleepover recently. It was [...]

A reader is anxious about the language barrier keeping her from bonding with her partner's friends. A two-week group vacation has ramped up the urgency. My boyfriend and I have [...]

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A reader ponders her next move after being left out of vacation plans with four other women. I am part of a friend group with four other women. They are [...]

A reader asks for help dealing with pressure to put grief behind her after nine years of mourning. My son died nine years ago from an opioid overdose. He was [...]

Experts say couples can emerge from the pandemic stronger than ever by learning from the past and looking toward the future. As we emerge, blinking, from our pandemic seclusion, all [...]

Two years ago, my son moved to Florida with his wife and decided he no longer wanted a relationship with his father, brother or me. My granddaughter was born 18 [...]

Since our father died 10 years ago, my sister and I have not spoken. I have tried to heal the rift, but it is useless. My psychiatrist and her counselor [...]

An old friend has a perennial problem being faithful to girlfriends. His current mate, whom he met while cheating on his former girlfriend, recently discovered a number of his dalliances. [...]

The ''Iliad'' may be a giant of Western literature, yet its plot hinges on a human impulse normally thought petty: spite. Achilles holds a festering grudge against Agamemnon (''He cheated [...]

What's the best way to recalibrate a marriage as the years pass? I wish I had the answer, because clearly millions of us would like to know. As the editor [...]

I am a seventh grader in New York City, and I love going to the theater, especially with my friends. Now that I can no longer buy under-12 tickets, mine [...]

An acquaintance told me he was interested in joining my gym. I asked if he would mention my name when he did, because I would receive a free month as [...]

Is there any way to ask a potential boyfriend whether he's gay? I am a woman and have just started seeing a guy my friends think is gay. He belongs [...]

''Do you want to start a press with me?'' my friend Steven asked me in an e-mail three years ago. He meant starting a small publishing house together, not a [...]

My youngest child is 3 months old and cries much more than my other two young children did. She is often fussy when we run errands, but it is not [...]

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and Maybe the Wedding My daughter is getting married to a man who is still friends with his ex-wife, with whom he has two children. [...]

My wife and I raised our boys (twins, 6, and their brother, 1) to believe in Santa. My sister decided against it with her little ones (6, 4, 2 and [...]

My friend keeps telling me that her 11-year-old son is not his regular happy-go-lucky self. It is clearly worrying her, and I have spent a fair amount of time listening. [...]

IT starts with a lowering of our shoulders. You and I have just befriended each other, and now we are well into our first cocktails on our first-ever get-together. We've [...]

For two years, our son dated a man he loved. (We never cared for him.) Enter our daughter, who met this boyfriend at our summer home. The two of them [...]

I am a single gay man in a city full of gay men, and I'm not having enough sex. So I downloaded the Grindr app to find guys near me [...]

WHEN the performance artist Marina Abramovic separated from her longtime partner, Ulay, in 1988, they decided to honor the occasion with a ritual. She traveled to one end of the [...]

The more than 43,000 Twitter followers of Rosanne Cash, the singer and daughter of Johnny Cash, have come to expect her tart commentary on married life with her husband, John [...]

One of the joys of playing golf is that you will meet a lot of different people. One of the inconveniences of playing golf is that you will meet a [...]

I was invited to my friend's surprise 40th birthday party by her husband. I flew across the country and had a wonderful time, spending two nights at their house. As […]

When I was out with a group of friends, a guy made it clear that he wanted to take me out. I hinted that I was seeing someone. Then, at […]

I GREW up the youngest of four girls, and nothing was more important to me than my sisters. Sure, we had our fights, but the idea of not getting along […]

LIKE many considerate boyfriends, Ed Vessel, a cognitive neuroscientist who lives in Brooklyn, bought a toothbrush for his steady girlfriend Diana Adams to keep at his apartment when she sleeps […]