Words are powerful. They can connect or divide, heal or harm, clarify or confuse. For years, I didn’t fully understand the ...

We all struggle sometimes to know just how to express our support when someone we care about is grieving. Turning to the standard phrases can feel insincere. We've been there, and we have some ...

Researchers have found that women apologize significantly more than men, and I believe women apologize too often. Many of us apologize out of habit, but unfortunately it hurts how we are perceived and ...

A reader has come to dread phone calls from her mother, whose deep unhappiness she attributes to life with her “textbook ...

It’s hard to summon any words when someone dies—let alone the right ones. That’s why so many of us let the sympathy cards do the talking. “As a society, we’re uncomfortable with death and grief. We’re ...

I realized many of my friends and acquaintances left me feeling drained; I cut them out of my life. I stopped asking them to hang out and told them I was busy in an attempt to ghost them. I don't ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I was visiting a dear friend’s home a few days after her husband died. While I was there, her adult daughter arrived from out of town. I had not met her before. We were introduced, ...

In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to when a friend facing surgery gets sentimental and ...

DEAR ABBY: I am a single, 52-year-old woman, never married with no kids. I suffer from depression as well as a number of ...