A woman wants to teach her son, 6, about the sexist sayings he’s picked up from older kids at camp.
She thinks her boyfriend is still in touch with his ex. He denies it, but distrust remains.
She’s happy in a relationship that he told her probably won’t last. Her friends say she’s selling herself short.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
A man who worries about his girlfriend’s past infidelity also might want to consider her candor about it.
A reader feels her mother’s generation may have known best. The columnist begs to disagree.
A woman who values both love and her libido doesn’t know what to do about his lack of interest.
Parents hope their grown children will buy newer cars, but a daughter might have other plans for the money.
A woman whose children are in their 20s wonders what to say about the adored grandmother who abused her.
Mother-in-law insists on weighing in on everything parents do for their son. How can they get her to stop?
Mom of twins struggles with the equitable division of a lot of things.
A reader with second thoughts about her fiance wonders if she was too busy chasing him to see his flaws.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
Left with child, wife starts to feel spite over husband’s annual four-day weekend trips with his male friends.
During an illness, some friends didn’t call or visit. Should anything be said to them now that it’s over?
A painful relationship that ended years ago has a bad legacy: The ex’s parents insist on visiting her.
A family thinks they want a third child, but aren’t sure why. What should they consider in making their decision?
A woman who has always had to bend to her siblings’ big events wonders how to prioritize her own.
Parents delegate the childrearing to others, but help themselves to the perks of parenthood.
A mother stresses about the sugar and noise and wonders how to deal with the onslaught of her crazy family.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
A father needs to be asked if his boycott of his son’s wedding is worth the damage that will be caused.
A woman is worried about whether the daughter she gave up for adoption 17 years ago will like her.
A man who broke up with his troubled girlfriend and moved away is still enabling her unhealthy behavior.
She’s confident of her decision to end the engagement, but she wonders whether she should reach out.
A man whose wife loves a creative way of sharing big news thinks her pregnancy isn’t the vehicle for it.
After wife’s affair, husband has concluded that we can love more than one person at a time.
Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style and none as a therapist. The column includes cartoons by “relationship cartoonist” Nick Galifianakis — Carolyn's ex-husband — and appears in over 200 newspapers.
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." Sign up for Carolyn Hax’s column, delivered to your inbox early each morning.
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