Advice columnist Annie Lane is a young wife and mother with a gift for helping other people solve problems. In a voice that's sympathetic, funny and firm, Lane provides common-sense solutions to life's dilemmas.
I have been with my husband for 23 years now, married for the last eight. A year ago, I found out that my husband had been communicating with an old high school girlfriend without my knowledge.
Dear Annie: Every year, my sister organizes a family reunion, which is held at a local botanical garden the weekend after Labor Day.
My letter about how to deal with my wife about getting a second dog made it in your column. I never in my wildest dreams ever thought it would!
Dear Annie: I love my wife very much and try to be a good husband. However, my wife has an explosive temper.
What is the protocol when a dear friend repeatedly uses an incorrect word or incorrectly pronounces something when speaking to you?
I have been dating this guy for almost nine months, and we often talk about getting married. Yet, I find myself preoccupied with a small thing ...
Dear Annie: My daughter, “Connie,” left home when she was at 17 to join the army. I was going through a separation, and then divorce, from her father.
Shortly after I was born, my mother and biological father divorced. My mother later married the man who I grew up with and will always call “Dad.”
Dear Annie: For over four years, I was with and engaged to who I believed to be an incredible man. He was smart, funny and hardworking. We had to live in two separate states for work, but I commuted as much as I could and helped with his bills. I learned six weeks ago he has been cheating on me. I told him to go be happy.
We were in the same situation as Divided Family, anticipating an eight-hour drive to New Orleans for a family wedding we really wanted to attend....
