Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dear Annie: My best friend, “Claire,” has been dating her boyfriend, “Jay,” for three years. I really liked him when they first ...

Plain Dealer and cleveland.com columnist Lucas Daprile answers a reader's question about a friend who goes to therapy and comes back even more toxic than before.

You can usually count good friends on only one hand. But what would you do if a good friend of yours kept blaming everyone but themselves for their own problems? In today’s story, a woman shares about ...

Sometimes you just have to walk away from the negativity.

Dear Eric: I have been in a wonderful relationship for a year now with a man who treats me like a queen, and we have plans to eventually get married. We happen to have a mutual friend, whom I have ...

Dear Eric: I recently set boundaries with a friend who would vent to me about another friend of theirs, with whom I’m only barely acquainted. I asked them to stop processing this other friendship of ...

Alexandra Stratyner, Ph.D., is a New York City-based licensed psychologist specializing in cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness skills training. Dr. Stratyner ...

Dear Eric: I just read the question about the person who always has something negative to say about what is going badly in her life (“Not Your Therapist”). That was me four decades ago when a toxic ...

Dear Annie: My best friend, “Claire,” has been dating her boyfriend, “Jay,” for three years. I really liked him when they first started dating, but lately, she’s been confiding in me about some things ...

Dear Eric: I have been in a wonderful relationship for a year now with a man who treats me like a queen, and we have plans to eventually get married. We happen to have a mutual friend, whom I have ...