Letter writer finds visits to assisted living tedious and “really hard” as mom struggles to hold a conversation.

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Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life. Sign up for Carolyn’s email newsletter to get her column delivered to your inbox each morning. Carolyn has a Q ...

Letter writer and husband disagree on value of correcting each other while explaining things within their kid’s attention ...

Letter writer always thought she would be a lawyer like dad — but didn’t foresee the disdain for switching to a science PhD.

Carolyn Hax: How to fix dull life with incurious spouse — but not blow it all up This parent is over the job, over the marriage and over the friendships in their small town, but feeling stuck ...

Carolyn Hax: Distance from critical mom comes with guilt for not trying harder Letter writer feels guilty for distance from increasingly critical mom because she was once “a great mother to me.” ...

Ex-husband might no-show son’s “engagement party” — surprise wedding — if the letter writer doesn’t let him in on the secret.

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Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax tells a reader that “rude” behavior on an airplane can be a “great screening of compatibility.” ...

New stepbrother is a weirdo who likes ‘triggering’ me. Hax readers give advice. She thought her new stepbrother was fine, until he spent a whole weekend provoking her with immature jokes.

Q: I am in my third trimester with twins, and they will be the first grandchildren on both sides. Needless to say, our mothers are foaming at the mouth to meet these kiddos. They both live halfway ...