Parenting styles vary from one person to another. Sometimes parents come up with cute nicknames for their children, but what would you do if your spouse’s nickname for your baby really bothered you?

DEAR ABBY: My parents divorced when I was in high school, and Dad kept the house I grew up in. I’m in college across town and have my own place, but I still visited Dad often. As a teenager, it used ...

Dear Annie: My 27-year-old grandson has stopped speaking to both his mother and me. We used to have a very close relationship, but that changed about a month ago. He and his girlfriend, who is quite ...

As we approach the end of the year, I am sharing some of my most popular columns of 2025. This one originally appeared on Tuesday, July 29. I have a longtime friend whom I met in my 20s when we worked ...

A woman is no longer excited for a family vacation after finding out her son wants to bring his "older" partner and the partner’s nine-year-old child The woman says her son, 23, has been dating his ...