My father recently passed after a long battle with dementia. My 45-year-old son who was close to my father is an alcoholic. He was sober for almost two years and then relapsed a few weeks ago after ...

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone whose husband's drinking has caused a rift in parenting their child.

A friend I’ve known since grade school lost her son last year. She has not told anyone in our group. I found out from a ...

My father recently passed after a long battle with dementia. My 45-year-old son who was close to my father is an alcoholic. He was sober for almost two years and then relapsed a few weeks ago after ...

He started talking ... and talking and talking. If I tried providing minimal responses or no follow-up questions, he just ...

I’m a retired social worker. I used to help clients to write scripts to prepare for difficult conversations. I thought about the letter from the massage client with an overly talkative therapist ...

We concerned that they might get in an accident on the way. They refuse our offers to help them out with the cost of a flight.

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas shares a reader's advice for how to be a caregiver for a relative who is ill.

Eric: The nature guide may see being extremely conversational as part of his job and he may have misread your minimal ...

A lot depends on if your younger sister is planning to come back any time soon. If she’s not, which seems more likely given what you said about the length of the tr ...

I found out from a neighbor who received a letter addressed to my friend. Before she gave the letter to my friend, she looked ...