Dear So Over Her: Continue to avoid your ex, and if you see her, do not acknowledge her. If she approaches you, tell her you ...

DEAR STRANGER: Choose a time when you and your partner are calm and as stress-free as possible. Open the conversation by saying you don’t think HE is happy and ask him why. Couples don’t “not get ...

After 18 years together, a long-term relationship feels increasingly distant. With intimacy gone, affection withdrawn and ...

My boyfriend and I have been together for 18 years. Everyone we know thinks we are married, but we never got it on paper. He ...

He has always been less empathetic than I would like, and there’s a lot of stuff I either had to accept or move on. He never ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

DEAR ABBY: My father left our family when I was in sixth grade. Because he had cheated on our mom numerous times, he was ...

A reader in later life still carries anger toward a parent who left and never admitted wrongdoing, and wonders if one last ...

Dear Abby gives advice to a reader who would like to stay in contact with his nephew's ex-wife after their divorce.

DEAR DELIVERING: Social isolation is a killer. People in the early to middle stages of dementia are capable of being social.