Question: Dear Luise: I have been divorced for almost 10 years. I have four children from that marriage 3 boys and 1 girl. Their ages are 22-girl, 19 male, 17 male and 15 male. My ex-husband remarried a month after the divorce was final. I am still single raising the two younger children alone. My [...]

Question: Dear Luise: My son is 35.He is having surgery on his jaw.I want to postpone my leaving for Fl until after the surgery.He does not eant me to postpone.He says he has lots of vriends and his fiance will be there.I am hurt but should I honour his wishes or just show up at [...]

Question: Dear Luise: My granddaughter got in to some trouble when she was living with her father my son . She was getting help until her mother went and took her and her sister away from him while he was at work. I have many grandkids and love them all. But either here are there [...]

Question: Dear Luise: where can I download information to help a young lady I know, she has been out in the world on her own since she was 14, has a 2 year old child her aunty and uncle take care off, she is so used to being on her own and fending for herself [...]

Question: Dear Luise: what is the best way to help my son?  He is 35, an actor, and has just separated from his wife.  He is an easy going person and she is a very abusive person……..extremely abusive.  From moment to moment she put him down, degraded him and told him that he was of no [...]

Question: Dear Luise: How do you talk about money/job matters with adult children (son and daughter-in-law) without anger? K. Answer: Dear K.; You pretty much don’t…because they are adults, even if in name only, and it’s their business, not ours. They need to be turned loose and left to their own devices. We no longer [...]

Question: Dear Luise: We raised our Granddaughter from the time she was 12 till she was 18. When she met her current husband she started changing in her attitude with us. They had a premature baby and we were there for all of them from the very beginning and for the first year things went [...]