Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.
A woman who knows exactly how badly she wants marriage and family wonders if her boyfriend does.
A little planning can go a long way for an expecting mother who is grieving after her spouse’s unexpected death.
A social experiment could help determine if a couple moving at different speeds are compatible.
A controlling and presumptuous nature and his overbearing mother are red flags a woman can do without.
A woman might need to consider counseling when her husband loses interest while she’s expecting.
A woman’s discomfort reaches the threshold. Is avoidance the only way to keep her marriage on track?
Her boyfriend reached out to an ex. But her crackdown left her with no reassurances of trust to show for it.
A woman hoping to take in a baby dismisses the birth mother’s right to decide who will become the parents.
She sucks up to each of her five grown children while bad-mouthing the others.
Besides the daily column, Carolyn has a weekly live online discussion (noon Fridays), the Hax Philes forum and a Facebook page. She also has a policy of saying yes when NPR calls but avoids TV like something forgotten in the back of the fridge; the feeling appears to be mutual.
Carolyn lives in Massachusetts with her husband, three boys and medium brown dog, Billy, but sees D.C. as "home."
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Tackle your problems with Carolyn every Friday from noon until she falls on her keyboard. Plus dip into her deep archives.Nick Galifianakis
