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DEAR ABBY: I have a friend I’ve known for 30 years. We have shared many good times together and feel like family. The problem is, she cuts me off during every phone conversation. It doesn’t matter if ...

Dear Annie: A reader wrote to you about the family dynamic of rudely interrupting one another and how her mother-in-law hated it. She would quietly leave the table when it would happen. I am ...

I’m hurt and angered by the shunning I’m experiencing from my family because they disapprove of my incarcerated fiance. I’m in my 60s, and I have worked for 20 years as a counselor in higher education ...

Dear Annie: My husband and I have been together for 13 years and married for 10. We’ve always had what I believed was a stable, loving relationship. In all that time, we’ve only had a handful of ...