Miss Manners: ‘We’re not registered’ is a complete sentence A couple chose not to have a registry for their upcoming wedding, but don’t know how to tell guests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com..../advice/2025/05/08/m

Asking Eric: Retired friends disappear from life A letter writer is wondering why all their long-time friends have started disappearing from their life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com..../advice/2025/05/08/a

Carolyn Hax: Friends unaware of husband’s illness are shocked by talk of hospice After friends reacted to husband’s hospice news “like I’m trying to do him in,” a letter writer wonders how much to share.
https://www.washingtonpost.com..../advice/2025/05/08/c

Their mid-century house had lost its charm. They brought it back to 1966. This Atlanta couple has been “unflipping” their flipped house for the past five years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com..../home/2025/05/08/unf

Officer takes in homeless teen. Years later, he pins a police badge on him. “I wanted to be just like him,” Jacob Bello said of his father figure, Andy McIlveen, a now-retired police officer who took him in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com..../lifestyle/2025/05/0