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If the guests want to wrest the check away from the host, because the host is also the guest of honor, then the guest who volunteers has to cover the whole thing. A guest can't volunteer -all- of the guests to pay for the host/honoree.
Carolyn Hax
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Carolyn Hax
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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Carolyn Hanley Hax
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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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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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When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.
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When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.
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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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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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You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
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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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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.
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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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Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.
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People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
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A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.
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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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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
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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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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.
Carolyn Hax
I have no quarrel with people who lack the skill or temperament to care for small children.
Carolyn Hax
