Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who doesn’t want to be reminded of her loneliness yet again.

InSeptember,I celebrated my 29th birthday in a dimly lit dive bar in Manhattan, the kind with sticky floors and beer served without ceremony. I invited a small group of close friends, ordered a round ...

My best friend is dating a nice guy, “George” (not his real name), and they seem madly in love and want to get married after ...