DEAR ABBY: I am a very feminine 23-year-old woman who lives at home with my father. I am completely uninterested in getting married or having children now or in the future. I don’t believe it’s the end of the world to be a woman and not want children, but my dad and my grandmother act […]

DEAR ABBY: I have been dating “Kyle” for more than six months, but I have loved him for more than two years. I always thought we had a wonderful relationship and that Kyle was a sweet, innocent guy. Well, he just confided to me that he has an Internet porn addiction! I’m very hurt by […]

DEAR ABBY: “Friend of a Lonely Child” (Nov. 7) complained his wife didn’t like him befriending the neighbor boy, “Donny,” whose father is terminally ill. Many years ago, I was that child. My home life was a mess, and the neighbors ended up raising me and teaching me about life. I am positive the only […]

DEAR ABBY: My fiance, “Kip,” and I are being married next year and we have only one disappointment. It’s about my keeping my last name. I don’t want to take Kip’s last name. I have had the same name for 33 years and I do not believe a woman “has” to take her husband’s name […]

DEAR ABBY: Several years ago my mother-in-law had to be placed in a nursing care residence because of dementia. When I visited her, it became more and more difficult to find things to talk about, until one day I came across her old address book. The idea struck me to take it with me each […]

DEAR ABBY: A few days ago, my mom told me that if it wasn’t for me, she and my dad would be divorced. She also said that the last few years with my dad have been terrible. I feel so guilty about this, knowing that I’m the reason my parents are unhappy. I barely slept […]

DEAR READERS: Yesterday I printed letters from adults in response to a letter from “Emotionally Abused in California” (Nov. 2), the 15-year-old who felt her mother was treating her unfairly. Today we’ll hear from teenage readers: DEAR ABBY: I’m a 14-year-old girl. My mom showed me the letter from “Emotionally Abused” and I almost died! […]

DEAR ABBY: I was sure “Emotionally Abused in California’s” letter (Nov. 2) was inspirational, but fictional. The 15-year-old writer felt her mother was unreasonable because of the rules Mom enforced and the chores the teen was required to do. Then I started re- reading my high school diary. There were many parallels between this girl’s […]

DEAR ABBY: My long-distance boyfriend, “Wayne,” moved here two years ago to take a job working for my twin sister “Kim’s” mentor. After five months on the job, Wayne was terminated and was replaced by — my sister! To say there are hurt feelings is an understatement. Wayne and I were unaware that Kim had […]

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married 11 years. We went through eight years of fertility treatments before having our twins. When they were a year old, we discovered I was pregnant with our third child. The twins are now 2 and a half and the baby is almost a year old. For […]