Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
If you are being shuffled around, then you should feel shuffled around. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'. — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image