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11 Parents on Why They Banished Grandma and Grandpa

By Matt Christensen

Why Kids Are Closer to Mom's Parents

By Virginia Pelley

Are Your Parents Pulling Your Strings?

By Jeremy Brown

What to Do When An Aging Parent Can't Manage Their Own Money Anymore

The Internet Hates Thanksgiving. Human Beings Do Not

By Lizzy Francis

Ask the Goodfather

I Can’t Stand my In-Laws. Why Can’t I Just Bail For a Few Days?

By Patrick A. Coleman

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Do I Have To Financially Support In-Laws I Can't Stand? In this edition of "Bank of Dad," our columnist helps a dad dealing with his in-laws' major financial trouble consider a different approach.

I'm a Happily Married, Proud Dad. I'm Also Bored Out of My Mind. He wants to inject some energy into his life and maybe tell his wife he wants to travel solo or try an open marriage. Our Cool Mom has thoughts.

Help! I Don't Trust My Father-in-Law With My Kids Our resident parenting expert drops some knowledge on a concerned dad who wrote in about his father-in-law frustrations

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The 10 Things Every Grandparent Needs to Tell Their Grandkids This relationship is so very important.

Your In-Laws and Your Wife Are Fighting. Here's What to Do — And What Not To One second you're all at the family barbecue, the next, everyone is yelling and throwing their potato salad at each other.

7 Hard Conversations to Have With Your Aging Parents These quality-of-life talks with your loved ones aren’t going to be easy. But avoiding them will make things a whole lot worse.

The Mueller Report May Make Family Meals a Stress Test But there are ways to deal with it gracefully.

Father & Child Relationships

What I Wish My Son-in-Law Would Do More Often, According to 15 Fathers-in-Law Step up your game.

The Extreme Cost of Not Living Near Grandparents Living near grandparents provides a unique set of pros and cons for every member of the family.

How to Keep Your In-Laws In Check (Without Pissing Off Your Spouse) What to do when your mother- and father-in-law overstep their bounds.

What Happens When Parents Return to Their Hometown Returning to your roots has a profound effect on your family.

Extending My Family My family's story is full of tragedy and loss. So, I took my kid to meet my wife's folks in Mexico.

The Very Real Consequences of Cutting Off Your Parents When your parents or in-laws are problematic, sometimes severing ties is the only option. But it's never a clean break.

Your First Divorced Holiday Will Test You Making it through comes down to forging new traditions and not stretching yourself too thin. You got this.

How to Save Your Marriage From Holiday Stress From Festivity Fatigue to setting unreasonable holiday expectations, there are a lot of relationship stressors lurking in the holly, jolly season.

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