Dear Abby: I have adult children, grandchildren and a great-grandchild. I don’t know if they think I’m senile, but they seem to think I have to cater to their every whim. Most of them are self-centered and think only of themselves. They borrow money from me, and sometimes I let them know it’s a loan. […]
Dear Erik: My mother is in her last months of life. For the past three years, she has been cared for at home by increasingly expensive home care workers. I and other siblings have suggested time and time again that she be placed in a nursing home for 24 hour care, but our oldest sibling […]
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Dear Erik: Should I tell a coworker that many of her colleagues criticize her as selfish and self-centered? She got married a year ago, but didn’t honeymoon because the couple, both in their 40s, had just returned from two weeks in Europe. Now they’ve decided they want a “dream honeymoon” at a luxury resort. To […]
It was 8:30 PM on Tuesday when Priya (fictitious name), a middle manager at a leading company, finally closed her laptop. Her day had started at 9am, full of back-to-back virtual meetings, urgent client escalations and a barrage of emails. She skipped lunch, postponed a doctor’s appointment for the third time, and ignored the throbbing […]
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Dear Eric: I have a friend, from the university of 40 years ago, which I only now realize that I am a needy, self -transmitting narcissist. At all this time, absolutely nobody in my circle has ever liked her. She drove people away, including her husband, but maybe I unknowingly thought I was different with […]
Dear Eric: Through a complete event I recently became aware of the death of my oldest friend about a year ago. Mary and I ran from each other on the other side of each other in the 60s and 70s. I played with her and with her older brother as children, and our families were […]