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Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.

Carolyn Hax

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Carolyn Hax
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Carolyn Hanley Hax
Relationship
Happiness
Else
Something
Dispiriting
Wanting
Relationships
Complicated
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No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
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I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.
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The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.
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Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.
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Live in the moment, this moment, your moment. That is by far and without meaningful rival The Best Position to put yourself in to discover and delight in who your children turn out to be, whoever they turn out to be.
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You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
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If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.
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Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
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Attractions are things we all should be good at saying no to, because our Department of Attraction is arguably the least reliable and productive office in our entire brain.
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People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
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First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.
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When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.
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You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.
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You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.
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Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.
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It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.
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Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.
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