Is Cutting Off Your Family Good Therapy?www.nytimes.com Encouraged on social media, many Americans are estranging themselves from their families as a therapeutic step.
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Advice | Asking Eric: Warn friends that filmmaker soliciting funds is a grifter?wapo.st A filmmaker often fundraises movie budgets from his friends. Is he a scammer?
The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.
The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictatorwww.theatlantic.com Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.
My Husband Said Something Awful to Me During Sex. Now We Can Barely Look at Each Other.slate.com I really wish I hadn't said anything about it.
Why Is My Brother So Angry That I Changed Tables at His Son’s Wedding?www.nytimes.com A reader abandoned the family table at her nephew’s wedding to join her sister at a lesser table, upsetting the groom’s father. Should she apologize for “ruining the wedding”?
I’m Tired of Hearing These Parenting “Tips” From Strangers on the Streetslate.com It's very invasive.
Advice | Asking Eric: Years later, I’m still upset about my table at my nephew’s weddingwapo.st This letter writer’s siblings sat together at the special family table at a wedding. And the writer sat with the cousins.
Advice | Asking Eric: Husband’s road rage is ruining our marriagewapo.st This husband’s road rage was so bad on vacation that the letter writer was left in tears and cut the trip short.
Advice | Asking Eric: Aunt wants to contact brother’s secret childwapo.st She’s debating saying something to her brother after DNA testing surfaced his secret child.
On breaking philosophy out of the seminar and back into the world | Aeon Essaysaeon.co I was searching for meaning and purpose so I became an academic philosopher. Reader, you might guess what happened next
Opinion | Biden should stay on the ticket. But he should replace Harris.wapo.st Don’t surrender to chaos or fantasies. But maybe Vice President Harris.
Advice | Asking Eric: Friends act like moving away is disappearingwapo.st Friends are being insensitive about this letter writer’s decision to move home and help care for their disabled brother.
Advice | Asking Eric: Couple has very different ideas about their futurewapo.st This letter writer wants to cohabitate and consider parenthood. Their partner doesn’t know what they want out of life.
Advice | Asking Eric: Mom wants her son to start dating again after a breakupwapo.st She wants her son to start dating again so he can give her grandchildren.