Carolyn Hax: If your boyfriend can’t take a compliment, then you’ll need to take a hint
Your boyfriend is uncomfortable with compliments. Should you edit yourself around him?
Carolyn Hax: How to prop up son’s mood when pandemic makes his good news less great?
Your son got into a program he’s really interested in, but it won't be the same because of ongoing covid restrictions.
Carolyn Hax: A pandemic bubble threatens to pop over disagreement on covid disclosure
Your children weren’t identified as contacts, so you didn’t tell your friends there were positive cases at their school.
Carolyn Hax: A bright child grows into an adult who can’t handle failure or criticism
You were raised to believe you had the inescapable responsibility to be perfect at everything. It’s making you miserable.
Carolyn Hax: Single-mom sister teaches her kids a cynical view of love. Is she wrong?
Your sister’s advice to her sons about love sounds logical to you, but “pushes against every romantic bone” in your body.
Carolyn Hax: How to cope when you can’t do the things that usually make you happy
You’re dealing with challenging work and family circumstances and all the things that normally bring you joy are unavailable right now.
Carolyn Hax: How to say no to longtime friends who vacation by drinking all day?
Your friends invite you on trips to their beach house, but when you visit you feel like they drink all day.
Carolyn Hax: Marriage, kids, job — add one more thing to be thankful for, and she’ll break
You’re the parent of a baby and toddler. Every second is either filled with work, child care, household duties or sleep.
Carolyn Hax: If expectations bring disappointment, then are we not supposed to make plans?
Should you go into every plan without an expectation of its actually happening to prevent yourself from being disappointed?
Carolyn Hax: Grown stepdaughter’s fridge-raiding has really gotten old
Your wife’s adult daughter helps herself to snacks when she stops by to talk about her upcoming wedding.
