What happens when you never find ‘The One’?
Some people never find the love of their lives. And live to tell about it.
Carolyn Hax
A shoulder not to cry on
Her own divorce was painful enough; now she’s being asked for emotional support from friends going through the process and feels unable to provide it.
Carolyn Hax: Dealing with a parent’s prejudice
How can a mother push back against her father’s sexist remarks to her children?
Dad’s mistress not welcome at wedding
Carolyn Hax’s advice: A 25-year-old woman wonders what she should do if her still-married father brings his mistress — also 25 — to her wedding.
Graduating together, celebrating separately
She wants their families to celebrate together; he wants to please his mother and keep his family’s celebration separate from his girlfriend’s party.
Mom vs. girlfriend
Carolyn Hax’s advice: A guy ignores his mother’s hurtful comments about his girlfriend. There’s three routes the girlfriend can take.
@Work Advice
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@Work Advice: Be careful where you vent
Gossip about a coworker could come back to haunt you.
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@Work Advice: With ‘friends’ like these ...
Facebook, LinkedIn and privacy at work: Karla Miller on the online networking paradox.
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@Work Advice: Get a clue, Nancy Drew
Suspicious about an employee’s past? Stick to just the facts, ma’am.
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@Work Advice: Has a road warrior reached the end of the line?
A travel-heavy schedule is ”killing” one worker.
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@Work Advice: How much must you take for the team?
A co-worker asks another to do her job; an ice-chomper tests her officemate’s cool.
Hints From Heloise: Deterring a dog bite
Heloise’s list of ways to prevent dog bites begins with “never tease or threaten a dog.”
Hints From Heloise: Block party for kids
A mom parks her SUV at the end of her driveway so that kids won’t ride out into the street.
Hints From Heloise: Guidelines for using epinephrine
Hopefully the need to use it never arises, but if it does, here are a few things to remember.
Miss Manners: Bride concerned that shower threatens to become deluge
Her mother-in-law wants to throw her a huge baby shower with lots of relatives she hasn’t even met yet. Miss Manners breaks down the meta-meaning of it all.
Miss Manners: When using patterned sheets, let the sleeper have the view
A reader wonders: When using patterned sheets, does the print side go face up or down?
Miss Manners: Simplicity and dignity are timeless virtues
A Gentle Reader wonders at the calling cards she sees today, complete with cutouts, poems and other embellishments. Isn’t simplicity called for on these charming announcements?
Ask Amy: Host wants to establish no-phone zone
She doesn’t let her children text at the table, and she’d like her friend’s family to refrain from texting at her table as well.
Ask Amy: Friend’s status updates are racially charged
An African American friend of the letter writer calls her workplace the “Plantation” and her bosses “the Overseers” on her Facebook page.
Ask Amy: Parents wonder about financing newlyweds
They’re paying for their daughter’s graduate-school tuition and living expenses as she pursues an unpaid internship, but she’s getting married soon, and they wonder if they should be ponying up for her living expenses after the wedding.
Animal Doctor
Cat has never purred; treating warts on dogs; ferret has halitosis; helping cats enjoy long and healthy lives.
Animal Doctor
A proper diagnosis and surgery saved a cat that might have otherwise been euthanized; home palliative care for pets; a dog suffers from anxiety attacks.
Privacy please
There are many reasons cats defecate outside their litter boxes. Some just need privacy.
Family Almanac
Freshman orientation
Advice for a young man who’s about to start college at a large university.
Lazy or defiant? None of the above.
A 13-year-old girl is struggling with school and acting immature for her age. Is she just lazy?
A mother’s job: To worry
An 8-year-old struggles with recognizing words and spelling. Could she have a learning disability?
Doodle dandies
There are lots of great kids out there, doing amazing things and bringing honor to themselves and their parents. Just ask the KidsPost editor.
It’s time we had the technology talk
How exposure to technology can foster conversation between parent and child.
Mothers, unite in sisterhood
All mothers work. Once we agree on that, perhaps we can agree that being a mother need not be a zero-sum game.
Date Lab
Date Lab
He’s tired of dating immature girls. Enter cool, confident Lindsey.
Date Lab: She was trying to keep an open mind, until he said ...
What was the turning point?
Date Lab: If this was the best ... we have concerns
A master class in miscommunication.
Advice from Slate's 'Dear Prudence'
Live discussion with Slate advice columnist Dear Prudence, a.k.a. Emily Yoffe.
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