Question: Dear Luise: My relationship with my twin boys continues to deterioate since 2009. They both graduated with master’s degrees and are now professionals and people constantly compliment me on what a good mother I was as I raised them as a single mother since the age of 6.   Their father lives in another state [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I’ve come to your website on a prior occasion to talk about my strained relationship with my mother. The advice you had gave me was very inspiring and reassuring, but I seem to be at a loss again once more. I’m about to be seventeen in May. I’m currently doing much better [...]

Question:Dear  Luise, 2 years and 6 months ago my husband died. He was separated from me and told the courts he wanted his wife back. Our friends split sides of not liking me and not liking my husband. Rumors of we divorced were spread for 13 years of our marriage and no one believed me that we were still [...]

Question: Dear Luise: My story is much like “Shut Out by our Daughter-in-law”.  I have talked and talked to my son but he seems to careless how our family feels.  They do have a 2.5 year old and we beg to see him, but it rarely happens.  Her family has full access and as a [...]

Question: Dear Luise: My grown daughter who is 31 y.o. has had issues with me since she was 12 1/2 and I started a divorce proceeding against her father. She lived with me until she was 18 1/2 and graduated High School.  The hospital where I worked at the time closed and I didn’t have [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I am a junior in college and need some help with a very important issue. I feel like one of the hardest things I had to experience in college is family jealousy. I understand it’s a heavy thing to accuse someone of jealousy but I feel it from many people in my [...]