ASK AMY ARCHIVE

Can this retired priest tell friends to stop expressing their doubts about religion when he’s around?

After a recent update about leaving an abusive relationship, this letter writer escapes an abusive marriage.

Can she tell his parents about the pregnancy that he refuses to accept?

She’s going on dates but her separated spouse still holds out hope for a reconciliation.

She’s worried she’ll be blamed for her partner being alienated from his rude daughter.

Letter writer is about to move in with mom and doesn’t want their sister to come stay for months at a time.

Their son’s girlfriend’s parents are a little snooty and regifted them a box of fruit with the original card still in it.

Letter writer is concerned about their siblings referring to their dead parents as if they are alive.

Teen daughter and her friend broke their phones so their parents would buy them new ones.

Her half sister found her on a DNA research site. She isn’t interested in meeting her.

After the #MeToo movement, he thinks initiating sex could be considered harassment.

An update from a 2016 letter written by a frustrated new mom whose husband would commute across the country for work.

Is it unreasonable for this letter writer to want their friend to stop giving unsolicited advice?

His grandparents didn’t take his allergy seriously and have him peanut butter for a snack.

He called his partner an “old bag” as a joke, but the letter writer doesn’t think it’s funny.

Letter writer is hurt their husband would rather be buried next his grandparents then his spouse.

Husband isn’t very social and would rather spend his time alone. How does this letter writer explain this to new friends?

Amy provides an update from a letter writer who realize they were in an abusive relationship after their letter in 2021 was published.