Carolyn Hax

A woman wonders if she can marry a boyfriend headed for a master’s — and a big student loan debt.

Mom guilt is powerful, but so are your principles.

She has always been unhappy in her marriage, but after building a life and home with him, she’s afraid to leave.

Her friends — and his — are anxious about their relationship.

A woman and her dad offer conflicting direction to a boyfriend who should be free to propose in his own way.

You are entitled to have needs and desires. You are entitled to express needs and desires.

A pal learns about a wife’s drunken smooch and thinks that honesty is the best policy for the unwitting husband.

She thought it was going well and then he broke off contact. Can any guys give her a clue what may have happened?

It’s not anyone’s place to set goals for other adults, whether it’s “health and appearance,” or anything else.

A reader wonders whether an e-mail to the ex in advance would ease a meeting at a mutual friend’s event.

Man wants to know: Should this change how I approach them going forward?

Advice-seeker thinks her husband should help his mother and father, who are in their 80s, when they move.

A man finds himself frustrated in attempts to approach women. How can he break out of the rut and make a connection?

His second-shift job means that they don’t see each other as much; she confesses to a crush on a new friend.

After they fight, she apologizes, and he tells her the ways in which he thinks the fight was her fault.

The reader is apprehensive about how the new woman in his life might feel about a past relationship.

Is a honeymoon registry so wrong? And what to do if you think it is?