Dear Annie: I’m a 50-plus married empty nester with a full-time job and three dogs. Life is still busy for us. My mom, stepfather and younger half-brother live in another state. My father died when I ...

This post is in response to Why Do Women Put Up With Infidelity? By Sheila Kohler This blog post was sparked by a response to my post on why women put up with infidelity. The anonymous reader quite ...

It’s common if you sometimes feel guilty as a caretaker, but that doesn’t mean you have to live with it constantly, nor should you. Making sure you care for yourself, too, should be part of your ...

Your parents say they won’t move. It’s a common, exhausting scenario: You see signs that your aging parents need more help than you can provide, but they refuse it. Perhaps their health has taken a ...

"... We spend more time judging ourselves, feeling the guilt, thinking of what everyone else will say about us, wasting time, precious time in the process ..." I said ...

Survivor’s guilt, experts caution, will for many be the new normal. It is a “constellation of feelings” — “despair, hopelessness, guilt, shame.” Combating survivor’s guilt involves understanding what ...

Q. I’ve been caregiving for my parents for several years, helping them stay in their home by cooking meals, shopping, assisting with bathing, managing their medications and medical appointments, and ...

Are you a remote employee who has ever chastised yourself for not getting dressed up in the mornings? Or, have you found yourself overexplaining how productive you were during the week? If so, there’s ...

Guilt can be a good thing — especially when we’ve acted against our values or caused harm to someone else. In those cases, the remedy is clear: apologize. But there’s another kind of guilt that’s far ...