Carolyn Hax
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Sister aims to keep adoption a secretFeb 19, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. I am in the middle of a growing crisis in my extended family because of revelations from a DNA match. After getting my results, I was contacted by a woman looking for...
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Protecting kids from their parents' food issuesFeb 18, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. My wife refuses to change her diet and grocery shopping to accommodate my health needs and those of our kids. Everything she gets is processed grains and sugar. My d...
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Dealing with in-law who likes secret-keepingFeb 18, 2018 5:00 am - Q. My in-laws live out of state, and visit about once every six to eight weeks for long weekends. Before their most recent visit, my mother-in-law asked my husband to bu...
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Husband feels used when wife loses her job yet doesn't dedicate herself to houseworkFeb 12, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. My wife has been a freelance consultant whose work has dried up. I have a good-paying job and I figured with her work having dried up, she'd take care of the house, b...
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Grandparents won't visit newborn twinsFeb 11, 2018 5:00 am - Q. My wife and I had twins this past summer, and most of our family has cycled through and visited them. All, that is, except for her parents. We've received excuses lik...
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Wife feels pressure to repair husband's relationship with sistersFeb 08, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. My husband is not close with his sisters, who do not live locally. They text sometimes, but don't see one another more than once a year, and almost always when we tra...
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She wants fairy-tale wedding. Should he put a (huge) ring on it?Feb 06, 2018 12:00 am - Q. My girlfriend of three years always badgered me about getting married before our four-year anniversary. At first the arbitrary deadline annoyed me, but after living t...
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Long distance wreaks havoc on high school sweetheartsJan 29, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. My boyfriend and I have been dating for more than a year. We dated senior year at different high schools, and now we go to colleges an hour and a half apart. We never...
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Don't forbid your sisters from dating your friendsJan 28, 2018 5:00 am - Q. I am a woman with many male friends I won't "allow" my sisters to date, and I would like to share that someone may have other reasons to step in. One is because my ol...
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You're never too old to go home againJan 25, 2018 10:00 pm - Q. How do you figure out whether moving back "home" and blowing up your career in order to do so is the right thing to do? I realize you can't answer this, but my husban...