My daughter, 20, has special needs and lives with me. She is absolutely a joy and is quite easy to live with.

She has a big hook on my husband. He will do anything for her.

After a (too extended) stay over the holidays with my parents, things boiled over.

I'm writing this sitting in my house alone with a Christmas tree up, which is just mocking me.

I have been dating my boyfriend for a year now. We have lived together for about nine months and we also work together. I have two girls, ages 17 and one in her 20s. I don't really have to deal…

Dear Meredith, I’m dealing with a struggle that I know I’m not alone in, yet I feel so alone when it comes to finding the answer. I recently became engaged to an absolutely wonderful man. He’s 31, I am 28,…

We're always either speaking transactionally about upcoming family logistics and moving onto the next thing ... or fighting.

I'd like to move in less than a month, whether he comes with me or not.

I was with my ex for seven years. We were married, had kids, and he had a lot of issues. We both did. He turned out to having a drug problem and developed a dangerous and violent drinking habit. We…

My husband and I deeply love our daughter, but sometimes when parenting gets frustrating, we have to be very careful not to get super annoyed at her for entering our two-person bubble.

Dear Meredith, How do couples find couple time when their kids stop going to bed long before the parents do? By the time we get our kids to bed, we're too drained even to have kid-free conversations about important things,…

I think he's a skeeze for actively pursuing a relationship with her in secret despite the stark power imbalance and the strong possibility she would lose her job.

Is it normal that he is still hiding me from his friends and children (youngest in high school)?

I see that he just isn't a very involved father. It breaks my heart not only because his son is so sweet and silly, but also because my own father was absent and it had a big impact on my life.

My wife and I have been together for 16 years. Both in our mid-to-late 30s. We are having a problem with a lot of things, but I lost it last night. Her father and I hate each other. He texts…

Dear Meredith, Is it reasonable to decline to go to a sibling-in-law's wedding? Let me clarify that this is all speculation; I'm not married yet or planning to get married. I've been with my partner for more than five years…

My best friend's older brother got my contact information and has made comments about a possible “us” in the future.

For the next 10 years, they called each other "husband" and "wife," even though they lived separately.

I'm also worried my family and others will have the same reaction as my best friend, which would not only make me feel bad, but my boyfriend, as well.

Do I approach him and ask him him what's going on?

On our wedding day, I remember feeling unsure whether I was marrying the right man for me, but at that point I just thought I was nervous about the wedding.

... as I’ve been hurtling toward cheating on him, I asked him for permission to have sex outside of our marriage.

There has been silence from both my fiancé and her family.

I don't want to ask him to move to where I'm from because I feel like he will resent me and feel the way I do now.

I would never expect to take priority over his kids. But after four months am I not allowed to expect some consistency in his behavior?