Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My then-boyfriend told me I needed to make a good impression with his mom. After we were married, we moved in with her while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've taken lots of trips with my family and my mother-in-law during my 20-year marriage. However, she and I have never traveled ...

Dear Eric: About 10 years back, I became the primary caretaker for our mother, even though there are five other siblings scattered throughout the country. She resides at a high-level care ...

My elderly mom wants to move from her house in the country to a smaller home in town. This is her idea, and she’s already looking for a house. However, she has a house, a garage and a barn full of ...

Dear Eric: I love my mother dearly but at 84 she has reached the point of rambling. She is still fully in control of her capabilities and is mentally acute, but her conversations are now filled with ...

I grew up in Guyana, where cultural norms set the tone for my mother's parenting and led to plenty of friction in my teen and young adult years — friction that needed time and perspective to soften.

Moms deserve the whole world, so that means they deserve way more than a box of chocolates and flowers this Valentine’s Day. Every year, I make sure my mom always has a present on Valentine’s Day ...

My mom as a teen. Source: Freida Neinburg, used with permission I come from a big family—four girls and a boy. Maybe not so big back in the '60s and '70s when we were all born, but big enough then and ...