When one half of a couple likes to keep score on minor annoyances, what is the right response?
A stay-at-home mom wonders why others complain it’s so difficult. Is she doing something wrong or just having an easier time of it?
A woman who escaped a physically abusive marriage is entitled to avoid her ex at their daughter’s wedding.
Her boyfriend was a drinker, but she’s wondering if she should reassess since her family thinks he’s great.
Carolyn Hax: While I’m away, a reader tells how misleading children about a divorce can backfire.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
While the columnist is away, readers offer advice on reunions, counseling and complaining about weight.
Plus a parent’s perspective on what to do when a grown child makes poor relationship decisions.
While the columnist is away, readers offer their wisdom on overbooked holidays and family turmoil.
Also: What to say when you don’t know what to say and finding compassion.
Is it cheap to give a handmade gift when you have the money to buy something instead?
Readers talk about confessing outside attraction to spouses and how to deal with sibling resentment.
While she’s away, readers give advice on children who witness pain and keeping a diagnosis quiet.
Her on-again, off-again boyfriend thinks that she could be the perfect woman — once she gets into shape.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
A woman is afraid of “scaring off” her first serious beau. What can a fed-up best friend do to end such talk?
A woman in a “wonderful” relationship wonders why her friends and family don’t seem enthusiastic about it.
A new mom who just endured a tough C-section now has to face a mother angry at a curb on overnight stays.
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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