Dear Eric: I have three adult children. About three years ago there was an issue, and my oldest, Doug, and middle, Linda, disrespected each other. It wasn’t a small issue, but (in my and my wife’s ...

Most people assume sibling relationships will always bounce back, no matter what. But the truth is, some patterns from ...

She texted me on my birthday last year. Just the standard message—”Happy birthday! Hope you’re doing well!—with a balloon emoji that felt like it came from a stranger. I stared at it for a while. This ...

Fern Schumer Chapman and her brother were only 2 1/2 years apart in age, but they were never close as children. As they grew up, the distance yawned between them: Phone calls went unreturned. When ...

Most siblings know exactly how to push each other’s buttons as kids, but the real challenge arises when this behavior carries over into adulthood. Do you ever notice that no matter how much you feel ...

Dear Eric: My sister, age 86, and I, 84, have two younger brothers, 77 and 74. We have all been invited to share Thanksgiving with one of my brothers and his wife. We siblings are spread out ...

When it comes to our closest adult relationships, the ones we have with our siblings often take a back seat. Parent-child relationships, romantic relationships and peer relationships hog our ...

Dear Eric: I’m 65 and have always had a cordial but not loving relationship with my 64-year-old sister as our parents never encouraged their children to be loving to one another. Last month, my nephew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. My sibling and I shared a bedroom growing up. We sat at the same dinner table, survived the same family vacations, and endured the ...

How can I get my neurotypical adult sons to interact more with their profoundly autistic older brother? I put this agonizing question out to my extensive autism community network and got very few ...