What Kind of Person Lies to a Child With Cancer?
A reader is fuming after a friend lied about her efforts to get a wig made for a sick child, and thinks her other friends should know about the deception.
By Philip Galanes
A reader is fuming after a friend lied about her efforts to get a wig made for a sick child, and thinks her other friends should know about the deception.
By Philip Galanes
When a woman tries to remedy a relative’s unequal generosity to her children using her own estate, her daughter-in-law wonders whether her husband is being shortchanged.
By Philip Galanes
A reader has been feeling left out by her husband’s siblings-only dinners — and never more so than when her brother-in-law crashed a recent get-together.
By Philip Galanes
Although his wife has long maintained that she doesn’t want to know the identity of her birth father, a reader is tempted to find out on her behalf.
By Philip Galanes
A reader is torn between attending a final dinner with his uncle, who has terminal cancer, and supporting his father, who wasn’t invited because of an old grudge.
By Philip Galanes
A reader’s wife sees bigotry in their exclusion from group photos at a nephew’s wedding, but her husband is reluctant to write off his relatives for good.
By Philip Galanes
A reader is angered by friends who list their homes with other real estate brokers — sometimes without giving his husband a chance to make his case.
By Philip Galanes
A reader’s feelings are hurt after offering to fly to celebrate her sister’s 70th birthday only to be told not to bother, as “all her family” would be there.
By Philip Galanes
Two years after one of her children received a generous birthday gift, a reader wonders whether to intervene on behalf of her overlooked child.
By Philip Galanes
Four years after being laid off, a man in his 50s is still relying on his father, who just moved into an assisted living facility, for support and housing. Should his sister say something?
By Philip Galanes
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