Valentine's Day, celebrated on February 14th, is a global event for expressing love and affection. It's an opportunity to ...

I WAS caught up in a whirlwind of an affair with my stepson’s best friend, but I’ve been dumped a week before Valentine’s Day. I genuinely thought we shared something special, and I ...

The widower provided long-term care to his ailing wife until she died. Does his son expect him to stay alone forever?

Dear Eric: My wife and I had a good friendship with a single woman, “Barb,” for about 20 years. We enjoyed her company, and she went with us on trips, sometimes with her boyfriend of the moment.

Plus: how to deal with an awful brother-in-law, what to do with a box of mementos you shared with your ex and how to tell a ...

Don’t wait for life to happen to you. Accept all the invitations you receive and go out of your way to invite other people ...

A reader was always OK with their husband having friends with benefits. But a new relationship has them feeling lost.

MY fiance jilted me a month before our wedding because he said he wasn’t ready to commit. The truth was, he’d met someone ...

My wife of 47 years passed away 16 months ago after living with a disability for many years. I took care of her until the end ...

Over the past 20 or 30 years, I’ve remained quite young at heart, and I still feel ­adventurous and would like to travel, but ...

Last year, at the age of 56, I had a sudden, shocking revelation: I am going to have to work forever, like a carthorse who ...

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone whose friend was diagnosed with cancer but won't return their calls or texts.