Ask Amy: I miss the possibility of romance
Dear Amy: Just before the pandemic, I started dating a charming, smart, handsome, funny professional guy.
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Ask Amy: Relative asking for more money
Dear Amy: My aunt has fallen on hard financial times and has begun leaning on me. Although she has a daughter, two stepsons, a nephew, and the biological father of...
Ask Amy: How to best memorialize a short life
My question is: What does somebody do with these personal effects? This man lived for not much more than two decades. He did not have any children.
Ask Amy: Amy revisits a reader prank
Dear Readers: The following Q&A is an example of a prank question that savvy readers enjoyed so much that it went viral. Honestly, I don’t know how I missed this...
Ask Amy: Two years later, a reader offers an update
Dear Amy: When I wrote to you, I was focused on the exhaustion of dealing with everything on my own after my parents' death. I was pained that during my...
Ask Amy: How do I tell people of my Alzheimer’s diagnosis?
Dear Amy: I am fully aware of my memory problems, but they are not yet obvious to others.
Ask Amy: I am not my mother’s therapist
Dear Amy: My 83-year-old widowed mother is depressed, and I don't know how to help.
Ask Amy: Does my son need to call her grandma?
Dear Amy: His grandfather feels that since he has married Helen it is disrespectful for his grandson to address her as anything but grandma.
Ask Amy: I’m sick of my daughter’s string of boyfriends
Dear Amy: I want to support her, but it's stressful for me to keep dealing with her various boyfriends, and I'm tired.
Ask Amy: How do you politely say no gifts at a wedding?
Dear Amy: How can I let our wedding guests know that we really mean “no gifts” without it sounding like fake modesty?