A reader wants to be a supportive aunt at the Naval Academy commencement, but the prospect of political speeches has her gritting her teeth. My beloved […]
A reader fears that her parents’ decades-long food fixation could jeopardize her efforts to keep her own eating disorder under control. When I was 10, my […]
A reader worries that a celebration for her pregnant sister-in-law, with whom she once commiserated about fertility woes, may be too much to handle. I have […]
A reader who has already contracted colds and the flu from her 18-month-old grandchild is flustered by her daughter’s indifference to her health concerns. My husband […]
A wife feels disgusted and betrayed after discovering a lurid image of another woman on her husband’s computer screen, and worries that he may have permanently […]
A reader’s brother-in-law is insisting that she accompany her children to his 1-year-old’s birthday party, even though attending would require her to miss an important funeral. […]
Welcome to their conversation. (Or YouTube video. Or baseball game.) For people bothered by the liberal use of speakerphones, the public sphere can be a circle […]