R. Eric Thomas

Dear Eric: I had a pancreas transplant in 2018. Due to this, along with celiac disease, I'm on a very restricted and medically controlled diet. There are very few things...

Dear Eric: Over the past couple of months, I feel somewhat left out because of a couple of events I wasn't included in. But what I'm trying to understand is...

Dear Eric: For the past two years, dear friends have sent me and my spouse a gourmet food gift for Christmas. It is something they enjoy, and while we enjoy...

Dear Eric: My wife and I will soon receive a small inheritance from the death of one of my relatives. Since we do not need most of this money, we...

Dear Eric: My "cookie-making crew" is divided on whether we should continue sending them. Stop altogether? Just send to the ones who acknowledge? Continue sending to all in the spirit...

Dear Eric: I'm a 47-year-old guy who has been with my wife, 44, for 12 years. Six years ago, we made the decision to uproot ourselves from city life and...

Dear Eric: My brother and other siblings say nothing, and I have been turning away to avoid a confrontation with a person I rarely see. But it is not funny...

Dear Eric: Is it becoming more commonplace to forgo what was once common practice? Recently, a close (immediate) family member and their own family (spouse and children) failed to send...

Dear Eric: I allowed the daughter of a cousin, with whom I am not close, to move in with me while she finishes college. When she moved in last January...

Dear Eric: My daughter-in-law's mother asked my girlfriend to make a dessert for another daughter's bridal shower. My girlfriend made a tray of lemon bars, so it wasn't a huge...