Asking Eric: I don’t love my mom. That doesn’t make me a sociopath. How can I tell a date I don’t want to talk about my parents?

DEAR ERIC: My sister stopped speaking to me because I didn’t attend the wedding of her daughter, my niece. Every year I purchase very expensive seats for my husband and I to attend a two-day ...

New York City mayor Eric Adams criticized his 2025 opponents for leaving the city with the general election roughly 100 days away.

Asking Eric: When I reject a bid, shouldn’t the contractor say something? Anything? Asking Eric: Given the situation, I think we should stop paying for her college Asking Eric: How can they be ...

Advice Asking Eric: My wife doesn’t want my tightwad friend to stay with us when he visits Published: Jul. 25, 2025, 2:00 p.m.

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone whose sister stopped speaking to them because they didn't attend their daughter/niece's wedding.

Dear Eric: I am a 35-year-old gay man. My mother is a duplicitous, bitter woman and my father is a weak-willed, hateful, homophobe. I don’t particularly care for either one of them, and have ...

Life & Culture Asking Eric: How can I make demonstrative friend understand she can’t go around hugging everyone? Published: Jul. 20, 2025, 11:00 a.m.

DEAR ERIC: My older sister and I are in our 40s. Our still-married parents have been fighting since the late 1980s. A few years ago, I wrote to an advice columnist about our difficult relationship.

I don’t want to pressure them, but I am really anxious about this and want to deal with these important decisions while they are still in good health.

Eric Thomas: He's about to retire, so this is going to be a bigger problem.