For fun/self-examination/self-flagellation, I recently searched my text messages for the phrase “sorry for the delay.” A harrowing result: it turns out I actually ...

Ask the Therapist columnist Lori Gottlieb advises a reader who wants to be supportive but also protect her own well-being. By Lori Gottlieb Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist and best-selling author of ...

Dear Eric: I’m writing because something bad happened to my friend and I might have been able to prevent it. On my friend’s 21st birthday we met up at a party and started drinking. She drank a lot but ...

You know that sinking feeling when you realize you’re being used? That happened to our reader — always covering dinners, rides, even excuses. Her friend’s birthday was the last straw. She decided to ...

I don't know when it happened, or at what point in the journey we stopped holding hands tightly. All I know is that one day I woke up and realized that the man sleeping next to me, with whom I share a ...