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Q: How do I prepare myself to spend Christmas break with my parents? The scene is set; the house is decorated for Christmas just as it...

Question My mother-in-law comes to our house unannounced several times a week. After several conversations and many months, I was finally...

Question I recently married a widow who has 8 and 10-year-old daughters. My wife has acknowledged that because of their fathers’ death...

Question Our 10-year-old daughter is painfully shy around others. She’s quiet but still a lot of fun at home with us and her two younger...

Question My kids (ages 5 and 7) love their grandparents, and my husband and I want to help foster that relationship. The problem is my...

Question My kids (ages 5 and 7) love their grandparents, and my husband and I want to help foster that relationship. The problem is my...

Question We have two boys and two girls, and both sets of grandparents enjoy going overboard in their gift-giving. It’s almost like...

Question I’ve been married two years and during that entire time, my husband’s sister has lived with us. She moved in to finish her...

Question I desperately want to have children. My husband doesn’t want to have children with me. He’s mentioned recently that he’s...

In Traits of a Healthy Family, Dolores Curran says that lack of time might be the most pervasive enemy the healthy family has. That may...

Question My husband and I divorced four years ago. Now he is remarried, and his new wife allows my 10-year-old daughter to watch movies,...

Question My parents just let us know that, after 36 years of marriage, they are getting a divorce. What is the best way to tell our kids...

Question I'm a step-father to three kids. I thought once the newness of our marriage wore off that the kids would warm up to me, but it's...

Question I am in an interracial marriage, and we have just been blessed with a baby. My problem is my wife’s family was trying to...

Question My husband goes out of his way to spend time with his family—he even admits he’ll stop everything to be with them. When it comes...

Question My husband and I divorced four years ago. Now he is remarried, and his new wife allows my 10-year-old daughter to watch movies,...

I don't even remember what the disagreement was about, but I do remember that it wasn't pleasant. My wife felt strongly about her...

I'd been to London several times as a single student but this was the first time my wife and I had been there together. We were on our...

Over the past 30 years I've counseled over a thousand engaged couples. When I'm asked, “What's the most critical issue of marriage that...

What do you think of when you hear the word anger? For over 20 years, I've led workshops dealing with emotions. Whenever I ask for a word...