When Self-Defense Goes Too Far

  The Dilemma A father of two, already stretched thin from months of shuttling his ailing mother between the hospital and a nursing home, fo...

When a Mother's Silence Costs a Son Three Decades

The Dilemma A 48-year-old man recently discovered that his late father had quietly set aside roughly 10 percent of his base military pay eve...

When "I Don't Know If I Love You" Follows a Number on a Scale

The Dilemma A 33-year-old woman has been with her boyfriend, 39, for five years. Recently, he told her he no longer knows if he is still in ...

My Mother Abandoned Me Twice:Now She's Angry I Won't Embrace Her New Family

The Dilemma A 22-year-old woman has spent the better part of her life building a stable identity in the shadow of a mother who chose absence...

My Boyfriend Yelled at Me Over a Wardrobe Malfunction

  The Dilemma A 23-year-old woman found herself confused and hurt after a Fourth of July outing with her boyfriend of four months turned int...

My Boyfriend's Body Is Changing and I Don't Know How to Talk About It

The Dilemma A woman in her late twenties has been with her boyfriend for seven years. He was once, in her words, magnetic and gorgeous — th...

When Love Becomes a Lie

  The Dilemma A 24-year-old woman had been in a relationship with her boyfriend, 25, for nearly two years, including nine months of an on-a...

"You're Out of His League": When In-Laws' "Compliment" Is Actually a Wound

  The Dilemma A 25-year-old woman, married for eight months after nearly three years together, found herself blindsided during a family din...

A Dying Wife's Final Gift

The Dilemma A woman living with a terminal cancer diagnosis , who has been told she likely has less than a year to live, has begun planning ...

When Blood Isn't Thicker Than Loyalty

  The Dilemma A 20-year-old woman is grappling with a lifelong strained relationship with her stepsister, also 20, whose parents married wh...