Dear Annie: I am an 85-year-old widow living alone. I have three children, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. In years past, when I was still driving, I would visit regularly and made it ...

Dear Eric: I am a 65-year-old widow with two adult sons in their late 20s. No partners or grandchildren and that’s fine with me as they are still young and maturing. One lives too far away to see more ...

For lonely bachelors in early 1900s America, a matrimonial ad from a prosperous Indiana widow seemed like the chance of a lifetime. “Comely widow who owns a large farm in one of the finest districts ...

Dear Eric: I became a widow two years ago after a long and happy marriage. I have one surviving son who is married and lives about 80 miles away in another state. I rarely see my son, when I do see ...

Dear Readers: So many of you wrote about the widow columns that I printed recently, and made some interesting points, so I wanted to share a few of these letters with everyone. Dear Annie: Oh, wow! I ...

Dear Sahaj: Should I tell my relatives the reason I’m deciding to move away? I’m a 65-year-old child-free widow, and I returned to my birthplace after a 30-year absence. Nine years ago, I felt “called ...

Dear Eric: I became a widow two years ago after a long and happy marriage. I have one surviving son who is married and lives about 80 miles away in another state. I rarely see my son, when I do see ...

Dear Annie: I have two grown children who are doing well, both married, and one is expecting my first grandson. I’m a widow; their dad passed away 10 years ago. We all live in different cities, and I ...