Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.