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It takes awareness that it's not only not a bad thing to let others do things their own way, it is in fact an improvement. It makes life richer and more interesting.

Carolyn Hax

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Carolyn Hax
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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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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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You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
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Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
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Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the Really, it's tradition! sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.
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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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Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.
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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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When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.
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People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
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You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.
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First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.
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Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.
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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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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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We all make deals with ourselves when it comes to the difficult people in our lives.
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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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I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.
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If you take the time to listen to an upset child's story with empathy, and guide the child toward figuring out the root of the problem, then the result is often that the child not only calms down, but also in the future is less likely to get so upset.
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A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.
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