Carolyn Hax

• Advice

After more than a year of living together, a couple is drifting apart — but this letter-writer doesn’t want to be single again.

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Her partner wants her to drop grad school, move West and start having his kids, and she feels "backed into a corner."

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For standing up to one sibling, another sibling seems to be getting "kicked out of the family."

• Advice

Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.

• Advice

A letter-writer struggles with a friend who goes no-contact for months at a time, then returns "as if nothing ever happened."

• Advice

Husband ignored notices from kids' dentist for more than a year, and his spouse is done with the excuses.

• Advice

Carolyn Hax readers advise a letter writer whose husband is offended they need alone time during the day.

• Advice

A parent planned to share news gradually of a just-discovered adult daughter, until a defiant niece told the world.

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A letter-writer struggles to connect with a daughter-in-law over her "very different tastes."