DEAR TRIPPED UP: While your absence at your great-grandchild’s birth was unfortunate, it is not the mistake of a lifetime.

In today’s Dear Abby, a great-grandparent says they’ll never forgive themselves after missing the birth of their ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

DEAR TRIPPED UP: While your absence at your great-grandchild’s birth was unfortunate, it is not the mistake of a lifetime.

I have an unusual, “made-up” first name. Nowadays it’s common for kids to have a uniquely spelled name, but I’m in my 60s, so it wasn’t common growing up. Miss Manners: My neighbor’s plus-ones are ...

DEAR TRIPPED UP: While your absence at your great-grandchild’s birth was unfortunate, it is not the mistake of a lifetime.

When I was invited to see the birth of my great-grandchild, I said yes. I was told if my granddaughter didn’t give birth by ...

When I asked her to leave, she started crying and said, “I’m so disappointed that my first-born married such an awful human ...

DEAR ABBY: My relationship with my mother-in-law has been rocky for the nine years I’ve been married to her daughter. She has been very hurtful at times, saying things like, “You’re not welcome [in ...

Dear Abby: My relationship with my mother-in-law has been rocky for the nine years I’ve been married to her daughter. She has ...

DEAR ABBY: My relationship with my mother-in-law has been rocky for the nine years I’ve been married to her daughter. She has been very hurtful at times, saying things like, “You’re not welcome [in ...

"She has never accepted me. She was recently unable to stay within the boundaries my wife and I set with her when she visited us." ...