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Carolyn Hanley Hax is a writer and columnist for The Washington Post and author of the eponymous advice column Carolyn Hax (formerly titled Tell Me About It).

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Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.

Moving, Easy, Staying, Speaking, Hard

I'm sure there are people who can toggle quickly from all-in caregiving to structured socializing, but I can't think of any offhand.

Caregiving, People, Quickly, Socializing, Think, Thinking

And if you're a parent who thinks you're okay because your kid doesn't have a phone or iPod yet, and
or you've used all the parent controls to filter out explicit material, you're not okay. The filters are tissue paper and your kid without a phone is on a school bus or in a locker room or at a public park with phone-equipped kids every day. And they're like all kids in exploring - by whatever means available to them - exactly what their parents are treating as too embarrassing or taboo to talk about.

Kids, Locker, Mean, Room, School, Tissue

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

100, Agree, Make, Percent, Right

One way to make tough decisions is to take incremental steps that don't commit you to anything yet.

Decision, Decisions, Make, Take, Tough, Tough Decisions

You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

Needs, Want, Want To Be With Someone, Already, Emotionally

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Doubt, Respond, Secondhand, When In Doubt, Witness

I realize that people fly with small children all the time, and that babies are easier in some ways because all they do is sit
lie around anyway, but damn it's hard to keep a baby comfortable on any flight, much less a long one, particularly amid the looks of horror they will get from fellow passengers as it dawns on them that their 10- to 13-hour flight might come with a soundtrack of screaming baby.

Baby, Children, Comfortable, Flight, Lying, Time

A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking.

Support, Awkwardness, Gets, Misspeaking

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.

Close, Crosswords, Filling In, Spots, Successful, Time To Kill

I actually recommend as little actual counting as possible in a life partnership. But, when there's a sense of injustice brewing between you, some counting is inevitable, and so my advice is to count using as broad a scope as possible. It's not just hours worked or chores done, either, and it's not even just about the household - it's a system of Whole Marriage Thinking. It's about hours worked, chores done, goals supported, emotional needs met, everything. What it all takes out of you, what it all gives back. It all factors in.

Done, Emotional, Giving, Life, Thinking, Whole

Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con.

Wisdom, Real, Opportunity, Good, Courage

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.

Passes, Propose, Test, Thinking, Tradition, Waiting

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.

Actively, Circumstances, Conscience, Like You, People, Under

You need to make plans for your future, so plan your own future.

Needs, Your Future, Our Future, Future, Plan, Make

People who make babies surrender their right to behave like them.

Baby, Like, People, Right, Surrender

I'm not a big fan of the white lie.

Lying, White, Fans, Big, Fan

Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

Dispose, Fit, Given, Stores, Use

Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.

Good, Good Things, Outweighs, Pain, Sometimes

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.

Guests, Honor, Host, Pay, Volunteer, Whole

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