Carolyn Hax
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When a true friend shares a concern, listenDec 22, 2013 5:14 am - Q. My best friend, who is also my roommate, sometimes makes comments to me such as, “You act so different around X group of friends,” even though there have been hardly ...
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Intervening in ugly dispute may be a waste of timeDec 20, 2013 8:05 am - Q. For the past few years, my friend L. has been receiving personal training from K. They have a long, strange history that until recently had normalized. In the last ye...
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Reader advises notifying doctor with health concerns about loved onesDec 18, 2013 10:41 am - While I’m away, readers offer their advice. On helping a loved one whose health is at risk: I often wish advice columnists would counsel neighbors, family and fri...
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How to keep someone who is seriously ill in your thoughtsDec 18, 2013 10:40 am - While I am off, readers offer their advice. On ways to respond to a friend’s serious illness: On two occasions I have had friends with extended treatments for ill...
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Leaving is the right choice in volatile situationDec 17, 2013 11:03 am - Q. What do you suggest one does when a couple is fighting and one partner tries to leave the room to go cool off, and the other refuses to let them leave? I mean physica...
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What, exactly, is your ‘best self’?Dec 16, 2013 2:42 pm - Q. You often talk about a “best self” and the ways people should either live that themselves or permit others to do so. I can guess what a best self might be, but I wond...
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Childless couple bows out, rankles siblingsDec 15, 2013 5:14 am - Q. I’m pretty annoyed and appalled at my brother, “Ted,” and his wife, “Lisa,” regarding Christmas and I’m wondering how to approach them. On our side of the family ther...
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Family’s obsession with weight is too heavy to bearDec 10, 2013 11:20 am - Q. Each and every member of my immediate family views thinness as the absolute key measure of success in life. Some are bulimic, some anorexic, but all have eating disor...
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Compassion? For vitriolic mother-in-law, or husband?Dec 09, 2013 5:14 am - Q. As I write, my husband is halfway across the country taking care of his ailing mother. We have had a terrible “text” fight over the past few days, and it revolves mos...
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Come clean about your choices; don’t make fiance the bad guyDec 03, 2013 10:26 am - Q. I wanted to check this disagreement I’m having with my fiance against a neutral third party. Every once in a while, I notice a situation in which his preferences or p...