11/13/2006

Dealing with a dying relationship
Question: How do you accept when your loved one's feelings toward you have changed? My ex and I had been together for three years, lived together 2 ½ years and shared many hard times, including being separated for 10 months while he worked overseas.

11/06/2006

How do I deal with hostile ex?
Question: I know you've heard it before, and I may sound like a disco rayado to you guys, but my ex-husband became meaner, greedier and more hostile after he remarried. His wife detests me, so I have as little contact with him and her as possible.

10/29/2006

My angry mom is no help at all
Question: I feel like crying, but I don't want to cry because I've cried enough. My issue is with my mother. We live in the same house, but I haven't talked to her for a month because she is mad at me.

10/22/2006

My eight-year engagement is getting old
Question: I'm 25 years old and have lived with my fiancé for eight years. We have two beautiful kids together, but two years ago, I can honestly say that I fell out of love with him.

10/15/2006

A favorite teacher leaves a void
I'm an 18-year-old high school senior. How do I learn to cope with your troubles by myself?

10/08/2006

What should I say to adulterers?
A friend started working with me about seven months ago. Soon after her arrival, she started dating my boss, who is married and has two daughters.

10/01/2006

Where's the help with wedding?
Question: I have a problem that is just eating me up inside. I have been planning my wedding for three months. It was going to be a small event, but it has now turned into a huge deal. Many of my close friends and family members volunteered to be a padrino (sponsor) to help us pay for it.

09/24/2006

Should kids' close-contact play be allowed?
Question: I have a niece and nephew, ages 4 and 6. They love each other and always get along and play well together. What bothers me is how they touch and grab each other.

09/17/2006

How can she get past her love for her ex-husband?
Question: I have been with my husband for five years, but I am still very much in love with my ex. He has remarried and moved on, and we would still be together if he hadn't cheated on me. So why do I still love him?

09/11/2006

His free ride is about to end
Question: I am a 55-year-old man who was raised with six siblings in a barrio setting by an alcoholic father and an angry mother who was only able to take care of herself. My oldest sister has always had the responsibility of taking care of our needs.

09/04/2006

I can't drop my two-timing man
Question: I've had a boyfriend for nine months. I'm in love with him. He says he loves me, and everything should be fine.

08/27/2006

My husband works too much
Question: My husband is a workaholic. We have been married for 13 years, and he has been in business for himself three different times for 11 of them. He doesn't know how to spend time with the family without feeling guilty about not being at work ...

08/20/2006

A lot of response to a little Spanish
Editor's note: A recent column regarding the use of Spanish words in this space generated the biggest response in the column's history. Click here for excerpts from some of the hundreds of comments sent our way from across the country, followed by a response from one of our columnists, Liliana Gundlach.
• More feedback to language column
• Archive: So, are we being hypocrites?
• Forum: Weigh in with your thoughts
• Tell Us: English, Spanish or both?

08/13/2006

Ex is forcing her to miss wedding
Question: My daughter is getting married next June. Her father and I are divorced, and I am remarried. He treated me very badly, and even after 10 years I am still incredibly angry with him ...
•  Forum: Weigh in with your advice

08/06/2006

HR ignores gripes about boss
Question: I have friends who work for a well-known employer that we'll call the Bad Pharmacy. Now this is a boss from hell. Whether taking inappropriate photos of female customers with his cellphone and then showing them off, ridiculing a gay employee or questioning the immigration status of Latino workers, he consistently subjects them to harassment ...

07/30/2006

How can she find her passion?
Question: OK, I never thought I'd be saying this. In fact, when others say it, it always annoys me. But I've come to the conclusion that I truly don't know what my purpose is in this world! ...

02/21/2006

A milestone for Consejos

NAN COULTER/Special Contributor

Daniel Ramirez, Catherine Jagers and Liliana Gundlach enjoy the give and take with readers.

For Liliana Gundlach, writing a column has meant having to develop a tough skin. As one of three Latino professionals who produce Consejos, the weekly bilingual advice column launched by The Dallas Morning News two years ago, she had no idea that readers' reactions could be so visceral, so opinionated, so all over the map.
• 100 Columns and Counting ...

1 column, 2 languages, 3 voices
How did one essay contest led to a nationally syndicated column?

100 columns and counting ...
What do "mean girls," overprotective parents, conflicted couples and a prison Buddhist have in common? They are among the hundreds of people who have sought advice from Lily, Catherine and Danny over the past two years. Here is the complete list (and brief summaries) of Consejos columns that have been published in The Dallas Morning News since September 2002.

Then and now
How have the columnists changed in two years?

08/19/2006

More feedback to language column
Editor's note: A recent column regarding the use of Spanish words in this space generated the biggest response in the column's history. Consejos, which is Spanish for "advice," is intended to be a starting point for conversations, and we wanted to share your side of the dialogue today. Below are several letters that represent hundreds of comments sent our way from across the country.
• Archive: So, are we being hypocrites?
• Forum: Weigh in with your thoughts