DEAR ERIC: My wife and I have been married for 20 years and together for 27. We have four children together the youngest is ...

Advice columnist R. Eric Thomas answers his readers’ questions in this September 20, 2024 edition of Asking Eric.

You deserve joy. Dear Eric: Recently my first cousin, Melanie, contacted me to offer condolences at the passing of my wife. The contact came after an uncomfortable hiatus of 18 years during which ...

Dear Eric: My husband of almost 60 years has Alzheimer ... Much as I’m enjoying it, and he seems to also, it somehow seems wrong. — Unknown Wife Dear Wife: There’s a lot here so I want ...

Dear Grieving: I’m so sorry for the loss you’re enduring. Grief’s shadow is always longer than we think it will be. It comes ...

How does she convince her husband to be more open about their financial situation?

Dear Eric: I’m a single man who has been divorced ... be a good dad to my kids and got along well with their mom. My ex-wife and I worked together to help get four kids through four years ...

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Dear Partner: The way your partner is has the hallmarks of emotional abuse, which is a form of intimate partner violence. It ...

My husband and I are in our mid-70s, married more than 50 years. He has been physically disabled since our mid-30s, has some form of OCD (never officially diagnosed because he refuses), ...