I always say that money is a tool we use to shape our lives and the world around us. And I'm not afraid to put some of it toward helping my friends when they're in need. There is no sacred rule that ...

This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. We’ve gotten some great questions over the years about the interesting dilemmas our ...

Dear Annie: My best friend and I have been close for over 20 years. We’ve seen each other through marriages, divorces, parenting challenges, health scares — you name it. She is the person I call when ...

I'm childless by choice, but I still know how hard motherhood can be for my friends. I'm the one ready to pick up a baby so my friend can eat her meal in peace. I don't want my relationships with my ...

Dear Eric: I grew up in a degree of poverty. Most of my friends have done “OK” financially. All of us but one is now retired and she is hoping to retire soon at age 73. She’s continued to work as ...

A Reddit user revealed in a recent post that as a young person in his mid-20s, he's had a lot of trouble making new friends. He said he'd kept a "few golden friends" over the years — yet lately he'd ...

Dear Readers: To mark my final week writing this column, I’ve fired up the “Ask Amy” Wayback machine and am re-running some memorable Q&As culled from the last 21 years of “Ask Amy.” Dear Amy: I’m a ...

Dear Annie: My best friend, “Claire,” has been dating her boyfriend, “Jay,” for three years. I really liked him when they first started dating, but lately, she’s been confiding in me about some things ...

The same way you reevaluate whether you want to drop out at the end of each semester, there’s no better time to reevaluate your friendships than now! That friend that gave you a backhanded compliment?