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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: 58
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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Carolyn Hanley Hax
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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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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.
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There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.
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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.
Carolyn Hax
I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.
Carolyn Hax
Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.
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First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.
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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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You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.
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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 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.
Carolyn Hax
People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.
Carolyn Hax
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.
Carolyn Hax
Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.
Carolyn Hax
Separation is where you see if it works better with the adults in two different homes.
Carolyn Hax
No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.
Carolyn Hax
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.
Carolyn Hax
Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing.
Carolyn Hax
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
