By Cecilia M. Ford, Ph.D

I am the stepmother of a 27-year-old woman who makes life almost unbearable for me. Do you have any suggestions for intervention?

“Tonight,” Michael said, uncorking a bottle of Champagne, “we are going to see the ballet.” But first we would be together. Watching the celebratory bubbles spill into our glasses, I was suddenly as tremulous as a bride.

You’d imagine that Valentine’s Day was over-the-top between my mother and my father. No. Let cheating husbands beguile their wives with heart-shaped truffles on February 14. Instead, my parents winked at Cupid and dedicated the day to family love.

By Stacy Kunstel

When you’re widowed, dating seriously and about to turn 40 you don’t get the “When are you getting married?” question all that often.

By Phyllis Fanzo Lombardi

I realize what a very special man my husband is and how he never lets anything stand in the way of his truly unselfish parenting.