The other side of this impasse is connection. For you, your father and stepmother are family who can love your child, carry history and childhood stories, and offer a potentially fond and meaningful generational bond. Your husband, on the other hand, given his more distant relationship with his own parents, might have less desire to…
I have a group chat going with some friends that’s usually focused on knitting, but the topic often turns to recipes. (Which makes sense: What is cooking but arts and crafts with food?) This broccoli-walnut pesto pasta by Genevieve Ko entered the chat to much fanfare, and rightfully so. It’s fast, a cinch to make…
The 2025 major championship season sets up undeniably well for Rory McIlroy. The PGA Championship will be at Quail Hollow in Charlotte, where McIlroy has won the Wells Fargo Championship no fewer than four times. The Open Championship will return to Royal Portrush in his native Northern Ireland, where he once broke the course record…
Stephen A. Smith, fresh off signing his new $100 million contract with ESPN, tuned in to the Final Four on Saturday and probably learned Clayton’s name for the first time. “This brother is the real deal,” Smith tweeted as Clayton became the first player to post consecutive 30-point games in the Elite Eight and Final…
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law — the High-Speed Ground Transportation Act — that seemed to pave the way for a national high-speed rail system in the United States. “An astronaut can orbit the earth faster than a man on the ground can get from New York to Washington,” he lamented at…
If you can reframe the intention behind her wish not as excluding you, but as including him, you can refocus on the strength of your own father-daughter relationship. Ask yourself: Are you delighted that the daughter you love dearly has found a terrific new partner, just as you did after your first marriage ended? I…
The Pittsburgh Steelers could face quite the dilemma if Aaron Rodgers does not commit to them by the end of this weekend. Rodgers is mulling his options. He has interest from the Steelers, New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings. At 41 years old, he could also opt for retirement — vanishing into a forest filled…
Kids need empathy alongside parental limits, and what you’re responding to with your stepdaughter is that this balance seems out of whack. By your account, your stepdaughter doesn’t allow for her daughter’s discomfort, which she needs to experience to develop resilience and a sense of competence in the world. Maybe this is because of the…