Carolyn Hax

Her running buddy reeks of alcohol every morning, and she doesn’t know whether to speak up or if it’s none of her business.

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

How can this parent enforce no-tech mealtimes if the teens’ grandparents are defiantly glued to their phones?

Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.

A teen with many details about their dad has contacted the letter writer and sibling to say he was married to her mother, too.

The letter writer was 20, reeling and absent for mom’s final days. Husband and kids never knew this till a recent holiday surprise.

Letter writer with widowed friend worries about the "collateral damage” of moving through grief too quickly.

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

Letter writer can’t even hear the subtle vowel shift, much less reproduce it as speech, and it’s straining a valued relationship.

The jitters have turned to dread, but calling off the wedding makes him “the bad guy, for all time.”