Dear Eric: My ex-husband and I have been divorced for more than 20 years. We see each other at family functions and are very cordial and polite with each other, as I am for his girlfriend, whom they all attend. Neither of us remarried. He has been in this relationship with this woman for many […]
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: My son will be 13 soon, just like my niece. They were born apart for a week. I usually organize a family pool party for my son’s birthday. My brother and his wife do not arrange a family celebration for their daughter. (They also have a nice garden with a swimming pool.) Instead, […]
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 […]
Dear Eric: A few years ago my mother -in -law died due to dementia. During the time of her illness, my husband and I took care of everything, including selling her house, auctioning her legacy, dealing with her boyfriend who could never admit that she had dementia and the Covid restrictions to visit her to […]
Dear Eric: I am a lesbian in my late 60s. I recently had a dream of a woman I knew in the 1970s. I was really taken by her; Although I knew that I was gay and confused, I got married to my boyfriend. But she and I and other friends went coffee breaks for […]