Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and comments about the strange train we call life and your holiday horrors.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.
Attributing the difficult episode to some trait or behavior of the mother only adds emotional turmoil.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
A woman wants to know how she can show support for her spouse, who is constantly being set up for hurt.
Not validating a partner’s viewpoint should raise a red flag for anyone planning a long-term relationship.
As the biological clock ticks, a woman has a much greater concern than wondering whether to have a child.
A woman who had to put her 5-year-old in a sister’s care for a year has no place critiquing the care she offered.
A mother whose 5-year-old son is struggling in pre-K dreads spending Thanksgiving with her own mom.
Wife should not let mom and dad monopolize her time — or husband’s — during long-distance visits.
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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