My favorite Tough Love question from the last eight years, the one I (somewhat inexplicably) recall most fondly, was from a woman whose boyfriend was grossed out that she used a pee rag—a.k.a.

After more than two decades dispensing advice in her nationally syndicated "Ask Amy" newspaper column, Amy Dickinson is retiring. NPR's Scott Simon asks her about what she's learned over the years.

People seem to automatically assume that I don't put much time into writing this column. I don't know where they get such an idea. It's time-consuming, agonizing work, I tell you. Why, this column ...