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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I'm Turning 50 and Panicking About My Appearance
I know looks aren’t everything, but I can’t stand the way my body is changing as I age.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Sister Is Still Envious That I Was Better Than Her as a Kid
She constantly throws little jabs at me, and I can’t take any more of her abuse.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Don’t Know How to Feel About My Girlfriend’s Abortion
We've since broken up, and I'm worried it'll affect our future relationships in ways that we don't know yet.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Don’t Approve of My Daughter-in-Law’s Parenting
I think my grandson needs some help, but I’m not sure how much advice I’m allowed to give as a grandparent.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Still Obsess About My Ex From a Decade Ago
I’m 40 now, and I feel like a fool.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Adult Daughter Thinks I Was an Awful Parent
She’s 32, and she blames me for her unhappiness.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I'm Scared of Having Kids
I feel a rush of longing when I see a cute baby, but I can’t tell if I’m ready to have one of my own.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: How Do I Know If I'm Compromising Too Much for My Partner?
She got into her top-choice graduate programs, and now wants me to move to a place where there aren’t many opportunities for me.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Partner Wants Me to Cut Ties With My Friends
I appreciate them. He doesn't accept them. How can I make everyone happy?
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: Should I Contact My Birth Mom?
I feel an urge to get in touch, but I’m worried my adoptive parents will be hurt.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Fiancé Is a Slacker Around the House
Should I be worried about how much responsibility he’ll take on as a dad?
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: Will I Ever Get Over My Wife's Death?
We were married for 47 years, and I can’t picture life without her.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: My Son Has an Impractical, Ridiculous Career Plan
He wants to be a stand-up comedian. I don’t want him living in my basement at age 35.
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The Atlantic Dear Therapist: I Google-Stalked My Therapist
And now I can’t unknow what I learned.
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Why There's No Such Thing as 'Having It All'—and There Never Will Be
When smart women lament the challenges of having everything at once all of the time, they sound awfully childish
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Amy Chua
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How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.
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Marry Him!
The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough
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Classen / ullstein bild via Getty How Do I Love Thee?
A growing number of Internet dating sites are relying on academic researchers to develop a new science of attraction. A firsthand report from the front lines of an unprecedented social experiment
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The XY Files
Forgoing a trip down the aisle, our correspondent heads straight to the sperm bank. But does she want the Truffaut aficionado or the mentor to underprivileged kids?
