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Annie Lane

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Dear Annie: I just read the letter about a friend who talks about politics too much, and the writer said it was causing them to question whether or not to end their friendship.

By Annie Lane February 3, 2024
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Dear Annie: When I was 4 years old, my father went to work one day and my mother's "friend" came to visit us.

By Annie Lane February 2, 2024
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Dear Annie: I’m knee-deep in a demanding job, and I absolutely love it. The problem is, I can tell my health is slipping.

By Annie Lane February 1, 2024
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Dear Annie: I want everyone to keep their germs to themselves. I am carefully training my children to avoid any contact with dirty hands or saliva when handling communal food. Unfortunately, few people in my world share my view.

By Annie Lane January 31, 2024
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Dear Annie: I just read the letter from “Anonymous” concerning his alcoholic wife and his inability to help her. This hit home for me 100%. Ten years ago, I divorced my alcoholic husband after 25 years of marriage due to his alcoholism.

By Annie Lane January 30, 2024
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Dear Readers: Below are a few of my favorite poems about winter and snowy days.

By Annie Lane January 29, 2024
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Dear Annie: My daughter shared your column with me this morning. The letter from the "Anonymous" husband of an alcoholic touched my daughter deeply, and it made me cry pretty hard.

By Annie Lane January 28, 2024
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Dear Annie: I’m newly married and now live in close proximity to my in-laws. We get together frequently. I get along great with my mother-in-law. The problem I have is with my father-in-law.

By Annie Lane January 27, 2024
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Dear Annie: In my dating life, I am often disappointed. I'll ask a guy to go on a date and he'll agree to. Then we plan a date, and he doesn't show up, so I end up by myself. I keep finding guys who don't have the same values that I do.

By Annie Lane January 26, 2024
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Dear Annie: My boyfriend’s kids hate me for genuinely no reason. He sees his kids twice a week for dinner, a dinner which I cook, but then I have to leave the house while the kids are visiting with him.

By Annie Lane January 25, 2024
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Dear Annie: I was, not for the first time, physically assaulted by my sister on Christmas a couple of years ago. It has been an ongoing pattern since we were young, and these days it is triggered by her drinking.

By Annie Lane January 24, 2024
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Dear Annie: I’m a divorced man in his mid-60s with no children, and I have a job that I’m very secure in. I recently began dating a woman who I met at a work seminar.

By Annie Lane January 23, 2024
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Dear Annie: I’ve been married to my husband for 16 years.

By Annie Lane January 22, 2024
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Dear Annie: On Dec. 19 of 2022, I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Ahead of time, my husband and I talked with both sets of our parents and we all agreed that we would not be exchanging Christmas gifts that year.

By Annie Lane January 21, 2024
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Dear Annie: I have been divorced since 2009. My three children haven’t spoken to me since then. Their dad has a lot of money and has done everything possible to keep my children away from me, even to this day. I am sure this gives him great pleasure.

By Annie Lane January 20, 2024
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Dear Annie: What is the etiquette for items left behind after a party? Is it my responsibility as a host to find the owners of the items and deliver them? What is an acceptable time frame?

By Annie Lane January 18, 2024
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Dear Annie: I am a 26-year-old woman and recently graduated college with my bachelor’s in May 2023. I’ve found myself the victim of incessant staring, perpetrated by a man who started here not long before I did. I got a weird “vibe,” if you will, the day I came in for my interview.

By Annie Lane January 17, 2024
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Dear Annie: I have always wanted to meet a man and be married. I am now 58 years old. Is it too late for me?

By Annie Lane January 16, 2024
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Dear Annie: Our little girl died.

By Annie Lane January 15, 2024
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Dear Readers: Please enjoy this excerpt of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

By Annie Lane January 14, 2024
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Dear Annie: I’m stunned by the number of letters to advice columns from parents who gave their children everything and are devastated that their adult children refuse or limit contact with them.

By Annie Lane January 13, 2024
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Dear Annie: This letter is a message to “Fed Up,” the reader whose husband dotes on their daughters. She needs to know that her husband, as well-meaning as he is, is NOT doing your daughters any favors.

By Annie Lane January 11, 2024
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Dear Annie: I recently had to go to a big-box store to purchase something that I couldn’t get online. The checkout lines on the grocery side of the store were six people deep, but if you looked beyond, to the other side of the store, there were no lines.

By Annie Lane January 10, 2024
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Dear Annie: My boyfriend and I have been together for five years.

By Annie Lane January 8, 2024
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Dear Annie: My wife and I have a close friend whom, in non-pandemic times, we invited over for dinner or cocktails at least once or twice a week.

By Annie Lane January 7, 2024
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Dear Annie: My fiancee and I have been together for six years, and I am having a hard time understanding where I fit in her life. She claims to love me, but lately, her actions just don’t say that.

By Annie Lane January 6, 2024
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Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for more than 50 years. We have had a great life together, sharing a lot of the same interests.

By Annie Lane January 5, 2024
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Dear Annie: My wife is an alcoholic. I wrote the letter below to myself really. I was wondering if you would publish it, in hopes that it might help someone who is afflicted with alcoholism, or perhaps let a family member who is engulfed by it, know that they are not alone in their struggles.

By Annie Lane January 4, 2024
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Dear Annie: My former boyfriend has a wife in the Philippines. He used to sometimes say, “Oh, stay with me, and we can keep sleeping together even when she moves to this country.”

By Annie Lane January 3, 2024
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Dear Annie: My husband and I are in our mid-60s and have been married for 45 years. We had our children early in our marriage and made many sacrifices to make sure our daughter and son had all the benefits of a well-rounded childhood.

By Annie Lane January 2, 2024
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Dear Annie: I’ve dated my boyfriend for more than 12 years.

By Annie Lane January 1, 2024
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Dear Annie: Recently, I retired from youth sports coaching. I am writing this letter to warn your readers about an alarming trend that I have noticed over the last decade.

By Annie Lane December 30, 2023
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Dear Annie: A few weeks ago, a friend and I had a trip to Costco planned. The night before, I fell in my house and wasn't sure if I sprained or broke my hand in the wee hours.

By Annie Lane December 29, 2023
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Dear Annie: When I was growing up, my father used to tell my brothers and sisters and me how important it was to set New Year's resolutions.

By Annie Lane December 29, 2023
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Dear Annie: My 16-year-old daughter is relentless in begging me to have a sleepover with her boyfriend.

By Annie Lane December 28, 2023
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Dear Annie: My husband — who is loving, hardworking and helpful around the house — slights me from time to time. I believe he loves me, but these slights really hurt and began to become a pattern about 12 years ago.

By Annie Lane December 27, 2023
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Dear Annie: I am the middle child of a family that once was very close. We are all grown up now, and our parents have passed away. There were two girls and three boys in the family, and our ages range from 45 to 69.

By Annie Lane December 26, 2023
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Dear Annie: I wanted to make a comment on your recent response to the article, “My husband wants to limit how much we spend on sick pets.”

By Annie Lane December 25, 2023
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Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. Hope you enjoy these poems for the holidays.

By Annie Lane December 24, 2023
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Dear Readers: Wishing you and all a very happy holiday season. Please enjoy the following poem. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement Clarke Moore.

By Annie Lane December 23, 2023
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Dear Annie: I met my husband eight years ago. When I agreed to marry him, I had a great relationship with his two kids from his previous marriage.

By Annie Lane December 22, 2023
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Dear Annie: I’m writing to respond to the post about “Godmother Goes Awry,” in which a mother was very upset that a godmother would not co-sign for her daughter.

By Annie Lane December 21, 2023
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Dear Annie: My nephew will be getting married in a couple of months. They are trying to stick to a budget. On their wedding website clearly states that although they love children, it is an adults-only event. It also states that plus-ones are not invited.

By Annie Lane December 20, 2023
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Dear Annie: I truly enjoy reading your column. At times, they are funny and really do make me laugh, and nearly always I can relate to certain situations that people write to you about.

By Annie Lane December 19, 2023
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Dear Annie: I have found myself pregnant again, seven years after my first pregnancy.

By Annie Lane December 18, 2023
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Dear Annie: My significant other and I have been together for nearly 14 years.

By Annie Lane December 17, 2023
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Dear Annie: This is to offer a suggestion to the sweet grandmother who was sad because she felt that her gift of clothes to her new grandchild was not appreciated.

By Annie Lane December 16, 2023
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Dear Annie: My husband doesn't spend time with me anymore. We have been together for eight years and married for three.

By Annie Lane December 15, 2023
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Dear Annie: I’m frustrated with my sister-in-law and the way that she plans the holidays that she hosts or organizes.

By Annie Lane December 14, 2023
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Dear Annie: I am about to get married to a woman I am still madly in love with, five years after we first met. Yet, within four months, she was lying to me, going off for a night here and a night there, claiming to visit her sister.

By Annie Lane December 13, 2023