Dear Annie: My mother died when I was 5, and I grew up in a very abusive childhood -- abuse in every sense of the word. I’m still traumatized over my childhood and I am now 65. I ended up in what I thought was a great relationship in my early 20s and thought he loved me. I ended up getting ...

The human body requires a thorough checkup from time to time to see if anything is amiss or if something has worn out and needs to be replaced. It’s very similar to owning a car. It had been over a decade since my last colonoscopy, as my primary care physician frequently noted. I was long ...

Slang tries to make language more efficient. Tickets become “tix.” Pictures become “pics.” Recently we took a “vacay.” That’s vacation for you less cool people. We met our two daughters and attached others for a week of running around Charleston, South Carolina, and Savanah, ...

When video games came on the market I began to see problems gradually develop. I believe that Pong came out In 1972. You could get your own game in 1975. I believe my first relationship problem that was the result of addiction to Pong was sometime in 1976. At that time I could never have ...

Dear Heloise: I read a recent column of yours, and it reminded me of this story: Two older women who were friends for a long time ran into each other at the grocery store. They hadn’t seen each other for several months. The first woman told her friend that she was so disappointed with her ...

your article about the husband having a relationship with someone in the office. The wife asked why women try to break up marriages like that. I’d like to offer some insight, as I’ve had experiences on both sides of the issue. First, in dating a married man, I lost sight of the morals my ...