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Tough Love with Abigail Shrier
An advice column that’s essential in our coddled era. No sugarcoating, no hesitating. Just tough love.
Tough Love: Can I Marry an Atheist?
A young reader hopes to marry his girlfriend—but she has an ‘adverse’ reaction to God, whereas he’s becoming more religious. Should he say ‘I do’? Our…
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Tough Love: I Love My Grandkids. But I Want to Move Across an Ocean.
A grandmother wants to relocate to ‘the place that allows my soul to sing’—thousands of miles away from her daughters and grandkids. Our advice…
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Tough Love: My Catholic Daughter Is No Longer a Virgin
A father is afraid his 18-year-old is ‘choosing infatuation and sin over love of God.’ Our advice columnist responds.
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Tough Love: Can I Fall Back in Love with My Husband?
A wife with three young kids is trying to be grateful for the man she married. She asks our advice columnist: ‘How long do I try?’
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Tough Love: Do I Sever Ties with My Anti-Vax Brother?
A reader is struggling with the ‘unsafe choices’ her brother makes for his kids.
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Get Ready for Tough Love! This Week: My Anti-Vax Brother
Can you have a relationship with a sibling who takes risks with their children? Risks you see as nonsensical? That’s the question Abigail Shrier answers…
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Tough Love: I Don’t Want My 22-Year-Old to Get Married
A reader thinks her daughter needs to know herself better before committing to a man. Our advice columnist Abigail Shrier responds.
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Tough Love: Do I Work on My Marriage, or Cut My Losses?
An unfaithful husband writes in about wanting to divorce his wife, with whom he shares a toddler.
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Get Ready for Tough Love from Abigail Shrier!
A reader wants to know: Is his marriage worth working on?
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Nellie Bowles Gets Tough Love from Abigail Shrier
In our inaugural advice column, Abigail Shrier answers: How do you live when you feel like the world is falling apart?
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Introducing: ‘Tough Love with Abigail Shrier’
‘The Free Press’ has an advice column! And Nellie Bowles has asked the first question.
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