From trail-running executive to crying over a toilet bowl at midnight—this is what happens when a fiercely independent ...

Do your in-laws critique your parenting? Does your spouse defend you? How do you tell in-laws to back off with the parenting advice?

Earlier this year, my husband and I bought a house with an in-law suite upstairs so that my in-laws could move in with us. My husband is an only child, and with him living in Chicago and his parents ...

In a world where stories about mothers-in-law typically resemble horror movie scripts, our heroines are incredibly fortunate. They anticipated criticism, moralizing, and a chilly reception, but ...

Dear Annie: You recently said you rarely get letters praising mothers-in-law. Well, here is one! I grew up in an abusive family with a mother who has severe borderline personality disorder and refuses ...

Most of us have been guilty of thinking, "I hate my in-laws!" But the best way to deal with tricky in-laws, even ones you ...

In my study of more than 700 long-married older people, I often heard people say, “You don’t just marry a person; you marry his or her family.” Indeed, many of the elders I spoke with regarded this ...

A letter writer says: my mother-in-law is rude at restaurants. But is there a bigger problem here? A letter about food, service, and in-laws.