Dear Queenie,
My parents are getting divorced and after years of listening to them fighting with each other I am not sorry about it.
My problem is that my mother goes around saying all sorts of bad things about Dad that I know are not true.
Queenie, how can I get her to stop doing this?—Fed-up son
Dear Son,
Ask your mother to stop bad-mouthing your father because you still love him and it is not fair to you – and because doing it makes her look bad, especially if your father is not bad-mouthing her.