What happens when you never find ‘The One’?
Some people never find the love of their lives. And live to tell about it.
Carolyn Hax
She wants a baby; Mom disapproves
Carolyn Hax’s advice: This parent wants another child, but she dreads her mother’s disapproval. Mom’s joy over a pregnancy might be a frill she’ll have to live without.
A baby by any other name . . .
The reader wonders whether it’s worth being protective of a name she wanted for her own child.
A shoulder not to cry on
Her own divorce was painful enough; now she’s being asked for emotional support from friends going through the process and feels unable to provide it.
Carolyn Hax: Dealing with a parent’s prejudice
How can a mother push back against her father’s sexist remarks to her children?
Dad’s mistress not welcome at wedding
Carolyn Hax’s advice: A 25-year-old woman wonders what she should do if her still-married father brings his mistress — also 25 — to her wedding.
@Work Advice
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@Work Advice: The Pygmalion problem
How to help a colleague whose language skills are less than loverly
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@Work Advice: Be careful where you vent
Gossip about a coworker could come back to haunt you.
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@Work Advice: With ‘friends’ like these ...
Facebook, LinkedIn and privacy at work: Karla Miller on the online networking paradox.
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@Work Advice: Get a clue, Nancy Drew
Suspicious about an employee’s past? Stick to just the facts, ma’am.
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@Work Advice: Has a road warrior reached the end of the line?
A travel-heavy schedule is ”killing” one worker.
Hints From Heloise: The Lincoln tire test
A penny is all it takes to determine whether it’s time to change your tires.
Hints From Heloise: Bike helmet safety
Top of the bike-helmet safety list: Make sure it meets the Consumer Product Safety Commission standard.
Hints From Heloise: Deterring a dog bite
Heloise’s list of ways to prevent dog bites begins with “never tease or threaten a dog.”
Miss Manners: Please come for supper (but eat something first)
A Gentle Reader wonders if “supper” and “dinner” are synonymous.
Miss Manners: Bride concerned that shower threatens to become deluge
Her mother-in-law wants to throw her a huge baby shower with lots of relatives she hasn’t even met yet. Miss Manners breaks down the meta-meaning of it all.
Miss Manners: When using patterned sheets, let the sleeper have the view
A reader wonders: When using patterned sheets, does the print side go face up or down?
Ask Amy: Mom wants to put angry daughter on hold
Her daughter sometimes gets so mad when talking with her that she hangs up the phone and refuses to pick up when she’s called back.
Ask Amy: Wife starts each day feeling rejected
She’s been married to her husband for more than 40 years, and they have a mutually supportive relationship. The problem? He has no interest in sex.
Ask Amy: Host wants to establish no-phone zone
She doesn’t let her children text at the table, and she’d like her friend’s family to refrain from texting at her table as well.
Animal Doctor
Cat has never purred; treating warts on dogs; ferret has halitosis; helping cats enjoy long and healthy lives.
Animal Doctor
A proper diagnosis and surgery saved a cat that might have otherwise been euthanized; home palliative care for pets; a dog suffers from anxiety attacks.
Privacy please
There are many reasons cats defecate outside their litter boxes. Some just need privacy.
Family Almanac
Freshman orientation
Advice for a young man who’s about to start college at a large university.
Lazy or defiant? None of the above.
A 13-year-old girl is struggling with school and acting immature for her age. Is she just lazy?
A mother’s job: To worry
An 8-year-old struggles with recognizing words and spelling. Could she have a learning disability?
Doodle dandies
There are lots of great kids out there, doing amazing things and bringing honor to themselves and their parents. Just ask the KidsPost editor.
It’s time we had the technology talk
How exposure to technology can foster conversation between parent and child.
Mothers, unite in sisterhood
All mothers work. Once we agree on that, perhaps we can agree that being a mother need not be a zero-sum game.
Date Lab
Date Lab: Will he catch her blue-handed?
A methodical guy with an artistic side meets a creative type with a practical side.
Date Lab
He’s tired of dating immature girls. Enter cool, confident Lindsey.
Date Lab: She was trying to keep an open mind, until he said ...
What was the turning point?
Carolyn Hax Live: Advice columnist tackles your problems (Friday, June 1)
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and celebrates the 15th anniversary of her column.
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