Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.
There should be a medal for not meddling.
A 30-year-old woman feels pulled into serious commitment by the man she’s seeing.
You may love everything your new man has, but you should be careful to evaluate it all.
They expect to be waited on and cleaned up after, and airing the issue only brings grief.
Whether you try it or not, the important thing is honest conversation.
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.
She moved cross-country for him. Would he do the same for her?
A reader’s ex was a codependent mama’s boy, a pattern she doesn’t want to model.
A mother with young ones is sick of being told “Just wait!”
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."
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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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Tackle your problems with Carolyn every Friday from noon until she falls on her keyboard. Plus dip into her deep archives.Nick Galifianakis
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