Advice

Dear Esther, Every year around this time, my wife becomes a different person — someone who is hard to be around and brings enormous stress into our home, along with...

    Provided By Moshe Alpert Northwestern Mutual As the COVID-19 pandemic still weighs heavily on us, it’s important to revisit what the last six months have taught us and how we can...

  Question I used to be the well-liked girl on every shadchan’s list. At 25 years old, that is now over for me because I have a record of a broken...

Do you ever wonder what your reaction would be to hearing something earth shattering in your life? Well, that’s what happened to me as we waited to hear the...

  Dear Esther, My husband and I are absolutely heartbroken. When our daughter Tami started dating Heshi, we weren’t crazy about him from the start; but Tami was! From their first...

Question: Our son started yeshiva one day ago and is already miserable. You wouldn’t believe the restrictions being placed on the children. They wear masks all day. They have...

  By Dina Schwartz, LCSW Imagine this scene: A beautiful woman, perfectly dressed and thin, strolls to the door to greet her husband. She flashes him a beautiful white smile and...

  In the interest of full disclosure (how I like to go about communicating with you and the others in my life), I’m going to drop a guilty mom truth...

  Question I’m a middle-aged man, and after two divorces I don’t want to get married again, but I don’t want to be alone for the rest of my life either....

  Dear Esther, I’ve always thought that my husband, Yitz, and our son Tani had a lot in common. Besides looking similar, they are similar in nature. From the time Tani...