Dear Carolyn: I recently separated from my husband of 27 years because he fell out of love with me and in love with a co-worker. Our son may lose his internship due to the pandemic…

Hi, Carolyn: My first cousin “Mimi” divorced her husband last year. As a divorcée myself, who hated to see a loved one go through hell unnecessarily, I reached out to her before the divorce was…

Dear Dr. Roach: My 18-year-old daughter has had digestive problems on and off for a few years now. Her appendix was removed in March 2015. She had brutal abdominal pain, but the ultrasound scan didn’t…

Hi, Carolyn: Years ago, right after college, I had a boyfriend who was disliked by most of my loved ones. Levels of objection ranged from slight to significant, and it caused friction with my family…

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 69-year-old male in good health. In 2017, I experienced a pulmonary embolism in my left lung. Following that episode, my cardiologist put me on a statin regimen of 40…

Dear Carolyn: Can you please outline for me what I need from my husband concerning his emotional cheating? Three years out, I still feel it’s unresolved. When asked why he chose to shut me out…

Hi, Carolyn: Your column concerning a new mother feeling pulled in many directions to celebrate Mother’s Day really got me thinking. I have felt the Mother’s Day guilt of wanting to make my mother and…

Dear Dr. Roach: Recently, a well-respected consumer organization ran an article asserting that hundreds of thousands of people die every year just from eating deli meat! The problem is supposedly that the nitrates and/or nitrites…

Dear Carolyn: I’m a middle-aged, longtime-divorced, peaceful, content woman. I was pressured into dating a recently divorced man in his 60s; I wanted friendship, he wanted romance. We’ve been dating a few years, but had…

This is not the article I would have predicted to write a few months ago, and certainly not my usual educational column.  However, like many others, COVID-19 has me feeling off-balance as I navigate my…