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My Husband Has Always Had Expensive Taste. It’s Starting to Become a Big Problem.

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My In-Laws Just Unleashed All the Pent-Up Frustration They’ve Held Against My Daughter. They Kind of Have a Point.

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Every Holiday Season, My Family Plays the Same Maddening Game of Telephone. Enough Already!

My sister openly doesn’t like me (and has said so publicly and directly), though we manage well enough for family events. I get along with my brother and his wife, but they are horrible at ...

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