Carolyn Hax
Carolyn Hax: Is monogamy just a bad fairy tale?
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After wife’s affair, husband has concluded that we can love more than one person at a time.
Carolyn Hax: Youngest children suffer from sliding scale of enthusiasm
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Instead of comparing milestones, use the drop-off in familial attention to cook up your own brand of celebration.
Hax Philes: Open Post (Jan. 31)
What’s on your mind today?
Carolyn Hax: Setting the record straight may achieve little
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Reader wants ex-friend to know she didn’t spill beans about pregnancy. But she wonders if this is a good idea.
Carolyn Hax: Pangs of jealousy over a friend’s pregnancy
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A woman who is worried about her own efforts to conceive feels unready for her pregnant friend’s visit.
Hints From Heloise: Tale of the tape
As any professional painter will tell you, it’s all about the prep.
Hints From Heloise: Kids in the kitchen
Tips for tot safety in the kitchen.
Hints From Heloise: Mayo chews up gum
Chewing gum stuck in hair? Try mayo, peanut butter or mineral oil.
Miss Manners: Office ladies’ room doesn’t need a monitor
The amount of soap someone does or does not use in the ladies’ room is not the Gentle Reader’s concern.
Miss Manners: Apologize for remark with judicious editing
The Gentle Reader apologized to a friend for a remark she didn’t remember. Should she be reminded?
Miss Manners: No-gifts policy avoids awkward situations
Her husband’s employee gave him a baby gift, moments before he had to let him go.
Miss Manners: Offer to cook and avoid the word ‘diet’
They’re fit and active and prefer different foods than her boyfriend’s bacon-eating parents. What to do?
Miss Manners: Beau never lets calls through to voicemail
He insists on answering — even if it’s to say he can’t talk at the moment.
Ask Amy: Family trips financed for some, not others
Successful sister understands but chafes at the unfairness of paying for trips when her brothers do not.
Ask Amy: Marriage push won’t end with happy-ever-after
She’s 22 and wants to be married before they have kids. He wants kids first. Amy points out the danger here.
Ask Amy: Sorority sisters not real friends
She’s in her late 20s, and finds her sorority sisters have grown distant. Not one even attended her wedding.
Animal Doctor: Is sour cream a safe doggy treat?
Dog’s day is topped off with sour cream; peppermint oil as a cure for carsick canines; healthy teeth matter.
Animal Doctor: Do goldfish have feelings?
The complex lives of fish; protecting blue-eyed dogs from UV damage; the dangers of pesticides and herbicides.
Training a young dog to be an easy rider
Pomeranian becomes sick with anxiety inside a car; cat prefers the living room carpet to a litter box..
@Work Advice
@Work Advice columnist Karla Miller (DEB LINDSEY/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)
Is he shy, or is he staring?
Does “finicky” co-worker have it in for him, or does he need to work on his manner and communication?
Family Almanac
3-year-old seems physically weak. How to help?
This 3-year-old seems weak and not interested in physical activity. How can her parents help?
Pre-K or kindergarten for September’s child?
Nothing’s written in stone: Every child is different and every mother can change her mind if things go wrong.
Unruly teen, frustrated mom
She’s an unruly 14 year old. Her parents need to relax a little.
Momspeak
Note to parents: It doesn’t get easier, ever
MOMSPEAK | In hoping the next stage of parenthood will be better, parents can miss the point of childhood.
When cheating on homework is okay
Harvard survey finds 42 percent of kids cheated on homework. What’s the big deal?
Date Lab
They both like games and kids and the flying trapeze
Date Lab: They share a passion for board games and faith and kids. Sounds promising.
They both like Manhattans. Will they find love in D.C.?
Date Lab: One guy is a politician, the other is in the Air Force. A power couple in the making?
They both like Clintons — and each other
Our daters give one another high marks for looks, likes and laughs.
He’s from Oklahoma, she’s not. Dealbreaker?
The both love dogs and Christmas. Is that enough in common for a good date?
They chose a very un-D.C. way to get to know each other
Their date led to a guessing game.
Carolyn Hax Live (Friday, February 7)
Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.
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