Dear Daughter is an award-winning podcast from the BBC World Service about love, life, family, and raising children. It is the brainchild of Namulanta Kombo, a mother on a quest to create a ‘handbook ...

After my brother and I left for college, my mother carried on a series of extramarital affairs and ultimately left my father; ...

My mother carried on a series of extramarital affairs and ultimately left my father. She is remarried to her latest fling.

DEAR HOUSE: Boundaries are great, and boundaries are internal – they’re guardrails that we set for ourselves regarding what ...

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Lately some of my friends who have joined me on these trips have now become buddies with my mom and are asking her if they ...

I am a single, recent college graduate whose parents have just gone through a very nasty divorce. As much as I love them both ...

The letter writer’s fiancé keeps pushing for her parents, who aren’t employed, to finance their wedding because it’s ...

For some reason it feels like being taken advantage of, and I let him know that I wasn’t comfortable with the situation.

Dear Eric: I am a single, recent college graduate whose parents have just gone through a very nasty divorce. As much as I ...

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