People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.