DEAR ERIC: I’m a sophomore in high school and I ... her to move into a nursing home a few months ago because we can’t provide the constant care she needs. She’s at a more advanced stage ...

Dear Eric: Two of my friends are planning a girls trip that I do not want to be involved with. They are planning it for when I am off of work so I can’t say no. Although we have been friends for ...

Dear Eric: I am a married man in my 60s and a recovering alcoholic. I have been sober for eight months. Prior to rehab I put my wonderful wife through hell for years. Not physically, but ...

Dear Eric: My home has been the gathering place for ... “Where’s my invite?” I don’t know; where’s your down payment? Some people see gentle needling as the same as a compliment or ...

Asking Eric: I don’t like when people say I make a big deal of my dietary issues, so I avoid food gatherings. Published: May. 10, 2025, 2:00 p.m.

You don’t need to get too deep into it, if you don’t want to, but a gut check or a simple “am I missing something” will put your mind at ease regarding the appropriateness of your behavior.

Dear Eric: I work in the public sector in a job that ... My new job and new team know of me, but don’t know me. My plan was to explain everything to the leadership team I will be a part of ...

to see yourself as someone who needed help and didn’t get it, and someone, like your sister, who was trapped in an imperfect family system. Dear Eric: I work in the public sector in a job that ...

Dear Eric: I am retired after 40 years of teaching ... Unwilling Participant Dear Participant: The saying goes that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but, by the same token, one isn’t ...

Dear Eric: I am retired after 40 years of teaching ... Unwilling Participant Dear Participant: The saying goes that one shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but, by the same token, one isn’t ...

Dear Eric: My husband of almost 57 years said to me for the very first time “I don’t want to talk about it.” He is 77 and I am 80. Advertisement.