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Dear Amy: My parents divorced when I was seven, after my mother had an affair with one of my father’s employees. He was much younger and a registered sex offender, but my mother moved him into our house immediately.

Dear Amy: I am moving in with my boyfriend in a few months. He is everything I’ve ever wanted in a partner, and I’m excited to move into the small one-bedroom condo, which he owns.

Dear Amy: My son just graduated from college and is out on his own. His mother and I threw him a graduation party.

Dear Amy: My husband and I have lived in our neighborhood for about 10 years. We’re friendly and neighborly.

Dear Amy: I’m hoping you can shed some light on this subject. Is there any justification or logical reasoning behind some of these new parenting trends, specifically one that grants basically full autonomy to a toddler to make his or her own decisions? One that is particularly irksome is letting said toddler choose whether or not they want to hug an immediate family member.

Dear Amy: For the past year, I have been dating a man who is separated from his wife. They separated shortly before we started dating, and both want a divorce. He loves his two children (11 and 13) very much, but does (fairly openly) regret having children with her.

Dear Amy: Overall, things are great between my partner “Beth” and me. Beth is a teacher and I'm a security engineer.

Dear Amy: I'm 32 years old. For a multitude of reasons, my personal growth was stunted after high school, and it took me twice as long to finish college than planned.

It’s easy to get lost in the wonderment of white-tailed deer during the fall in the Midwest. Few scenes are more exciting than a heavy horned buck bird-dogging a doe across a field of corn stubble at dawn. When he stops for a moment and you see his warm breath penetrating the frosty morning air, you’re reminded why you crawled from under the covers of your cozy bed to sit motionless for hours on end in the outdoors.