Category: Dear June

Dear June: Meeting Anger With Calm and Love

Dear June, I read your article on families, and while impressed, you’re missing one crucial piece. These people for whatever reason are angry. You can’t have a conversation with them. They become defensive. I’ve been friends with someone for 40 years. Her husband is an atheist, which we’ve ignored all this time. He also drinks…


Dear June: Facing Family Strife With Calm

Dear June, I’m a conservative in a family of liberals/leftists, all of whom have gone along willingly with their party’s slide into authoritarianism justified by Trump (and conservative) hatred. I used to be an even more rabid leftist in my youth, but marrying a Russian Orthodox wife and joining her community here in San Francisco,…


Dear June: Seeking Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccines

Dear June, I have concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines. I need trusted—truth and tradition—guidance. My work wants to make it mandatory as fast as legally possible. Concerned Hospital Worker — Dear Concerned Hospital Worker, I think that understanding how some traditional ideas—moral principles and beliefs—apply to the issue of vaccine mandates will help us to…


Happily Ever After: Creating Love That Endures

Dear Married Couples, Do you still feel love for the person you married? I truly hope so. But in many marriages, feelings of closeness are superseded by negative emotions. So since Valentine’s Day is coming, I’d like to share some ideas for how to create a love that can endure life’s ups and downs. When…


Dear June: For the Sake of Our Nation, Where Do We Go From Here?

Dear Readers, The events of Jan. 6 have shaken this country up once again and left some questioning when and how we will be able to shake off the dark cloud that is covering America. In answer to this, I would say that the course of history is full of twists and turns, and events…


Dear June: Dinner Conversation Topics—Does Anything Go?

Dear June, Is there such a thing as appropriate topics to only converse about in mixed company anymore? Or does anything go? My husband and I have a 12-year-old daughter that we homeschool. On a regular basis, we open our home for dinner to get to know the other families from the co-op better. Two…


Dear June: Advice to a Former Feminist

Dear June, I’ve been a subscriber to Epoch Times for about five months now and I’ve really been enjoying your column. I am a 39-year-old married woman with two boys, ages 6 and 8. This year has been profoundly transformational and challenging for me. I’ve lived my life as a strong, opinionated, career-oriented feminist who…


Dear June: Politics Strain Father-Daughter Relationship

Dear June, Your article in The Epoch Times, December 2–8, 2020, “When Politics Are Polarizing Your Marriage,” and in our case, Your Father-Daughter Relationship … was just the subject we have been addressing for the past several weeks. We sent a one-year gift subscription of The Epoch Times to my husband’s daughter and granddaughter. This…