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 ...

My husband and I have been very close with “Brian” and “Anna” for maybe five or six years. They are pretty easy-going people ...

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 ...

There are certain social media rules we can all agree on: Ghosting a conversation is impolite, and replying “k” to a text is the equivalent of a backhand slap (violent, wrong, and rude). But what ...

Dear Annie: I have a friend, “Marcy,” whom I’ve known for about six years through a mutual group of acquaintances. She was very kind when my mother was alive, often coming over to help, and she has ...

After nearly a decade of close friendship, a reader is hurt and mystified by the radio silence from a woman who was in her wedding party just a year ago. By Philip Galanes My best friend and ...

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 ...

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 ...