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Dear Eric: My family moved out of state to cut ties with my husband’s verbally and emotionally abusive mother. One brother did the same. The last brother engaged in a horrific divorce ...

Dear Eric: Christmas is a very difficult time for me, and I typically don’t celebrate as I don’t have any close family, and it only brings back painful memories. I moved a couple years ago and ...

Dear Eric: My spouse and I are an older couple with some family members who live in the same town as us and some family who live out of state. The families who live near us only invite us to ...