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Carolyn Hax
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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Carolyn Hanley Hax
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For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.
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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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Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.
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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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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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One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't win, you won't change anyone's mind, you won't change any votes, you won't make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won't feel any better.
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People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
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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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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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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.
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A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.
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Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
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No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
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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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I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.
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The topic of sexual education makes me nuts, because kids are certainly not now and have rarely ever been clueless about what adults do and delude themselves about keeping from their kids. Especially now that so many of them are carrying the entire internet around in their pockets.
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You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.
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When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.
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