Dear Sidney

Am I too attached to my sweet, adopted toothless 13-pound doggie? She is 105 and I am 75 and we get along so well! We’ve been glued at the arthritic hip for six years now. I take her everywhere. She has her very own car seat, so she can stick her fluffy ears out the...

A dear neighbor here in Crestline, a young 50-something professional, foolishly married an Internet date last spring, after the thaw. Naturally, he moved right into her lovely cabin and began rearranging the furniture and her life. He quit his job – too far to drive –...

I made the mistake of helping out my 70-year-old neighbor. She has a car, but her license expired a few years ago. She has failed the driving test over and over. She is on a small, fixed income. So, of course, I offered to chauffer her around to doctor appointments,...

I am beside myself. I’m crushed and so hurt. We brought home our first child, a son, just last week. My husband of two years is accusing me of being a cheat, shouting that our son can’t be his child because of his eye color. My husband and I have brown eyes. Our...

I am a man teetering on the edge of two romances. I’ve been in love before and I know what I must have in a woman, what I need in a mate. I dread falling in love in vain with the wrong woman. How can I be sure if I give my heart to one that she will love me more than...

I’m so upset. I’m devastated over the cruel intentions of my boyfriend of two years. We’re both in our 50s and we’ve both been married before. We don’t live together because I have my teenage daughter living with me and I don’t feel it would be appropriate. Over the...