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 […]
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 […]
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 […]