Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male office worker in my 50s. My thoughts have not come together on how to deal with my daughter, who’s in her second year of high school. I live in a five-person hou...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 50s. I’m seeking advice about my mother, who’s in her late 70s and lives far from me. My mother was diagnosed with dementia, but she manages to live ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m the mother of a son in my 50s, and I’m so frustrated with my son’s bad manners at mealtime. He’s a third-year high school student and he’s always glued to his sm...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 50s. I’m worried about my relationship with my sister and her family. My sister, who’s one year older than me, developed early and has always fallen fo...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male part-time worker in my 20s. I’m still wracked with doubt about what I should have done when I saw a certain family while shopping at the supermarket. There were...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female high school student. I am at a loss, wondering whether I should give up on going to college. My parents are not divorced, but have been living separately for 15 ye...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female university student in my late teens. I’m wondering what to do about my slightly older sister, who has started dieting. I myself have suffered from an eating di...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 40s. I work as a housekeeper, but I want to leave the family I’m responsible for now. The family is composed of a father in his 50s and a teenage daughte...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 70s and I’ve been married for more than 40 years. Every year I get angry at my husband on three occasions. I’ve been frustrated about this for many y...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 60s. I’d like to consult with you about my husband, who’s in his 70s and is a tobacco lover. My husband is very fond of cigarettes, even the electronic...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a man in my 50s. Several months ago I became head of my current department, and since then I’ve been exasperated by a subordinate who’s a total perfectionist. He dem...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my late 60s. I’d like to confer with you about my husband, who left me about 20 years ago. I constantly fought with him over his loose spending habits wh...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 50s. I lost my only daughter to illness eight years ago. She was eight years old at the time. I’d like to consult with you about my husband. I know t...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a 40-something woman who works a sales job. I’m having a hard time getting along with the older women on my sales team. These women are all around age 60. They’re co...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a homemaker in my 50s and I need your advice about my daughter, who is in her late 20s. For about a year, she’s been seeing a man who is in his mid-40s, divorced and has...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 30s. I work as a company employee, and I’d like some advice about my job. Ever since I was promoted to management last year, all kinds of people have bee...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female company employee in my 30s. I resent my close friends and mother-in-law as I’m angered by the presence of full-time housewives. I worked hard to obtain my sta...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female part-time worker in my 20s. I’d like some advice regarding one of my friends who recently told me she plans to start living with a man she came to know through ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female student in my late teens. I can’t forgive my father, who cheated on my mother. I first became aware of his behavior when I was in kindergarten, when I found a ...

Dear Troubleshooter: My husband of 60 years passed away in February last year. It happened so suddenly, and I still feel a major sense of loss. My husband had a bright personality and was a hard w...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 60s. I’d like some advice regarding my son, who’s approaching 50. He’s not my biological child — he’s the child of my husband, who’s in his...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 60s. I need advice about my older brother, who lives in our family home. The home is a rental property, but the landlord doesn’t take rent. Instead I pay...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male office worker in my 20s. I’ve never dated anyone of the opposite sex before. I have a normal interest in women. During my college days, I liked a girl in my sem...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a man in my 80s. I am worried about my two sons in their 50s. I live with my eldest son. A high school graduate, he’s never had a steady job and hasn’t worked over the...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male public servant in my 30s. I’m worried about noise trouble. I moved to housing for public workers with my wife and three children. The day after we started living ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female part-time worker in my 40s and have children of elementary and junior high school ages. I’m worried about how I can live a more ordinary life. Nearly 10 years...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male company employee in my 50s and I’m troubled because my wife, to whom I have been married for more than 30 years, has become lazy over the last several years. Sh...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a homemaker in my 50s with a daughter in high school and a son in junior high school. I’d like your advice on how I should interact with them. My daughter has always w...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female part-time worker in my 40s. I would like to know your opinion about fertility treatment. I got married in my mid-30s and gave birth two years later. I wanted to ha...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female office worker in my 20s. I’m fed up with my husband, who boasts on social media about how much he helps with our child. I returned to the office and began wor...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male university student in my late teens. I want to consult with you on the relationships in my family. I live with 50-something parents who both work and a younger si...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female sixth-grade elementary school student. It is so hard to listen to my parents complain. My mother hates my father’s family so much. She has arguments with my f...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 40s. I’m seeking advice about my mother, who lives alone in her own house. About three years ago, she was diagnosed with initial-stage symptoms of de...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 50s. I need your advice about my relationship with a friend from elementary school. She underwent a medical checkup and was found to have a disease. She told...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female office worker in my 40s and I recently lost my mother. Every day I end up thinking about being with my mother again. When she was alive, the two of us lived toge...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 50s seeking advice about my self-centered, greedy sister-in-law. Though my daughter is attending a two-year university, we still keep her used clothes in ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a male company employee in my 40s. Tailgating offenses have been a talking point of late. I am worried because sometimes I tend to resort to such dangerous driving. The o...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female company employee in an administrative position in my 50s. I’m deeply troubled because my husband has been cheating on me with another woman. The woman works a...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a company employee in my 40s. I need advice about my son, who is a third-year high school student. He’s scheduled to take an entrance exam for a private university, bu...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female company employee in my 50s. I’m having problems with my husband, who’s a heavy smoker. I hate cigarette smoke. We’ve been married for 30 years, and I’ve...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female student in my teens. I’d like to consult you about my relationship with my father. I seem to make comments that annoy him, as he tells me I’m “disrespectfu...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a homemaker in my 80s. I want to ask you about my interactions with someone in my neighborhood. A woman in her 80s who lives next door comes over to my house, where I li...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female part-time worker in my 20s. I don’t think I can bear another second of living with my mother. My parents divorced when I was in elementary school. I understoo...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male company worker in my 30s. I can’t stop thinking about a junior female colleague and I’ve been wondering what I should do. I’m basically not good at associat...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female student in my teens. I’m troubled by my relationship with a friend at the same college. We became friends after I started college and we took classes together...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a housewife in my 50s. I’d like advice about my mother, who is in her 80s. My mother entered a medical facility near her house three years ago. My father, who died las...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a man in my 50s who runs a company. I can’t forget about a woman who works at a client company. About a month ago, we met on the second-to-last train of the night. It co...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male company employee in my 20s, and I have some doubts about my workplace. I started working at this office in spring. At first, I left the office on time and turned dow...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female worker in my 60s. I’m worried about how to deal with a case of ongoing fraud at the medical institution where I work. The person in charge of payroll calculat...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a woman in my 40s. Recently, I’ve had a succession of unpleasant experiences, and I can’t stop wondering why these things always happen to me. One day, when I was ea...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female university student in my 20s seeking advice about a photo my friend posted on social media. We took photos of ourselves when we went out, after which my friend ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a male company employee in my 60s. I’m worried about my relationship with my son, who’s my only child. My wife died when I was in my late 50s. After some time, I began...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a homemaker in my 60s and worried about my only daughter, who is in her early 40s and hasn’t gotten married yet. She doesn’t even have a boyfriend. She was told she ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female company employee in my 20s. I’m living with my boyfriend but I’m distressed because he is such a mama’s boy. He is two years older than me, and is serious ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I am a female part-time worker in my 20s. I am seeking advice about my husband, to whom I have been married for two years. Since childhood, my husband has always been plump. ...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a female part-time worker in my 40s. I have a problem with my stingy grandfather, who’s in his 80s. He’s been living alone since my grandmother died a year ago. He re...

Dear Troubleshooter: I’m a girl in my third year of high school. My ex-boyfriend just got a new girlfriend. I am seething with hatred for her. I go to the same school as my ex, and in our secon...