Carolyn Hax

I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between…

— Carolyn Hax

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for…

— Carolyn Hax

People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

— Carolyn Hax

There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.

— Carolyn Hax

It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in…

— Carolyn Hax

The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with…

— Carolyn Hax

I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get…

— Carolyn Hax

Unfortunately, I think the expectation is that birthday girls don't pay.

— Carolyn Hax

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.

— Carolyn Hax

All of us assign different values to things, and not all of those values are going to line up with others'.

— Carolyn Hax

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

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

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every…

— Carolyn Hax

You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.

— Carolyn Hax

First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

— Carolyn Hax

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

For me, the greatest source of frustration was trying to work with a willful child when there was something else I wanted…

— Carolyn Hax

If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then…

— Carolyn Hax

You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively…

— Carolyn Hax

Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.

— Carolyn Hax

The only answer that has any chance against against the information saturation kids face these days is to talk openly with kids,…

— Carolyn Hax

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

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.

— Carolyn Hax

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot,…

— Carolyn Hax

It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.

— Carolyn Hax