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Every week, we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice to a question Carolyn Hax hasn’t ...

A letter writer doesn’t know how to handle a subversive mother-in-law, and her husband isn’t helping.

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Nov. 21, 2010. Dear Carolyn: My boyfriend wants to get married. Is it fair to ask what’s in it for me? He has been unemployed for the three ...

Dear Carolyn: We’ve been in our new home for about nine months. Two months ago, the couple we bought it from dropped by unannounced. I was out front with our dogs and said hello, figuring they ...

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Every week, we ask readers to think like an advice columnist and submit their advice to a question Carolyn Hax hasn’t answered. The letter writer’s coping strategy is to interrupt the ...

Dear Carolyn: I deeply love my husband of 16 years, but his innately sour outlook on life is wearing me down. I can guarantee negative commentary from him daily: frustration over a project gone ...

Dear Carolyn: I admit our dad was not the most involved father. My twin brothers are eight years older than I am, and they were the ones who came to my softball games, taught me to ride a bike ...

Dear Carolyn: Last week, I was fixing my dad’s computer for him and found out he’s spending money on at least two sugar babies he met on a sugar baby website. My mom has no idea. I wondered ...

Sign up for Carolyn’s email newsletter to get her column delivered to your inbox each morning. Carolyn has a Q&A with readers on Fridays. Read the most recent live ...