Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, I want to keep my wife sane this holiday season, but my family is making that really hard. […]
Having a spouse or a child is not the thing that makes a person a grown-up; putting other people’s needs ahead of your own is. After I asked readers to describe their feelings about the holidays, many expressed frustration. They wrote of nosey relatives who grilled them about their romantic lives, of being relegated to […]
At 41 years old, I have finally realized: I am the grown up now. A grown woman with my own family, small as we may be, I don’t have to wait for permission to be happy. Every year, when discussing the coming holidays, inevitably someone I know offers up a variation of the same tribal […]
