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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.

Carolyn Hax

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Carolyn Hax
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Carolyn Hanley Hax
Nothing
Really
Good
Like
Tree
Family

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It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.
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Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.
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Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.
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Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.
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You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.
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Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.
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Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.
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I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
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There's nothing wrong with being happy somewhere, even if it's the little pond you grew up in, as long as you are in fact comfortable vs. bored.
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A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.
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First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.
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I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.
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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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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.
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Plan your own vacations when you want to, and plan a suitable combined vacation with this other family when you want to. If they freak out at your planning your own vacations as you see fit, then let them. Bowing to unreasonable demands because someone will make you pay emotionally if you don't is not a healthy option.
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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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Being highly invested and preoccupied by an emotionally consuming mission tends to steal resources from other aspects of your emotional life.
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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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Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way to manage your family.
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