Family

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If I die, I want my friends to raise my children
My parents are too old and my siblings are too mired in difficulties. But I'm hesitant to bring up the idea with friends.
My husband of 12 years suddenly says he never loved me
We've got five children, one only 2 weeks old -- and now he says he wants a divorce.
I should have gone to my aunt's funeral
I could have gone, I should have gone, but I thought about the money and my other plans!
My mother-in-law put a curse on us and spat in my husband's face
I really think we are cursed now, because I am not Greek. How do I remove the curse?
Would you please get out of my swimming pool!
My husband's cousin dives in without asking.
Nothing makes any sense anymore. I'm at the end of my rope
For years I have done my bit to listen, to pretend, to nod in agreement: But now I see this is all meaningless. There is nothing there!
I need a new dream
I put everything I had into the hope of raising children. It isn't going to happen. Now what?
My half-brother locked me in the closet and I think I'm to blame
I am conflicted about who is to blame for my older brother's abuse. I goaded him on. I think I share the blame.
Die, Daddy, die!
After a lifetime of competing with his father, writer David Shields has had enough. But the aged patriarch remains "cussedly, maddeningly alive."
My ex wants our 14-year-old daughter to witness his new wife's childbirth
It irks me to imagine my daughter in the delivery room with her stepmother, but I don't know if I should object.
I'm having a European family feud
Our last visit to my family in Europe erupted in acrimony among the siblings.
I get grossed out when I hear, "I'm a mom!"
I'm about to be a mom, actually, but I don't want to just be a mom.
My alcoholic father has a child we never knew about
Way back when, he gave up rights to the child, but now I want to know my half-sibling.
My molester financed my college education
Now I'm depressed and suicidal and very few people know why.
Cops arrested my partner for felony heroin possession
I had no clue she had a problem, but now that she's in rehab I'm feeling strangely relieved!
My married boyfriend's ditching me for Christmas
He's going home to his family without me. Could that be because we're both still hitched?
All I need for Christmas
A big orange and some fresh pine boughs and "Silent Night." A few details bring back a snowy night in Minnesota years ago.
My dad is a writer -- a very, very bad writer!
He spends every day pounding out novels that make everyone else groan, and he insists that we critique them.
How to explain my husband to my kids?
Their father has some issues. What should I say?
I'm an existential artist. People just don't get me!
How can I go on living in a world where people are so unoriginal?
Should we euthanize the Yorkie?
My grandmother is ill and cannot care for her aging Yorkshire terrier.
Fantasies in black and white
If even most African-Americans believe the black poor are primarily responsible for their own plight, does that make it true?
We moved, and now my husband is miserable
My daughter is happy, and I'm doing well, but my husband hates it here, and I don't know what to do.
Now my mother's gone, what do I do?
Is it time to go back to California?
I Like to Watch
"The Amazing Race" and "Notes From the Underbelly" demonstrate that the joys and perils of family are as countless as the dirty dishes piling up in your sink.
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