Carolyn Hax

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Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax takes your questions and tackles your problems.

  • May 15, 2015

A wedding invitation tests a relationship’s strength when a guest wants to bring her new boyfriend.

  • May 8, 2015

Advice Columnist Carolyn Hax took your questions and tackled your problems.

  • May 8, 2015

A mom is unhappy with her family’s commitment to attending her daughter’s high school graduation.

  • May 7, 2015

When it comes to chores, there are multiple perspectives on what constitutes an equitable share.

  • May 6, 2015

A woman separating from a self-absorbed husband is afraid to tell her self-absorbed sister about it.

  • May 5, 2015

To make relationship work, you have to know, accept and embrace differences.

  • May 4, 2015

How to be thoughtful on Mother’s Day towards a sister who’s had trouble conceiving?

  • May 4, 2015

She was asked not to visit but chose to “surprise” her daughter-in-law anyway. She got welcomed by tears.

  • May 3, 2015
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Carolyn Hax started her advice column in 1997, after five years as a copy editor and news editor in Style and none as a therapist. The column includes cartoons by “relationship cartoonist” Nick Galifianakis — Carolyn's ex-husband — and appears in over 200 newspapers.

Besides the daily column, Carolyn has a weekly live online discussion (noon Fridays), the Hax Philes forum and a Facebook page. She also has a policy of saying yes when NPR calls but avoids TV like something forgotten in the back of the fridge; the feeling appears to be mutual.

Carolyn lives in Massachusetts with her husband, three boys and medium brown dog, Billy, but sees D.C. as "home."  

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