A couple both want to make each other happy but wonder when compromise becomes a change of “self.” Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared Jan. 16, 2012, and was adapted from an online ...

Student in highly competitive high school learns that focusing on arts plus taking only one AP class equals an object of ...

Carolyn Hax is away. The following first appeared April 10, 2011. Q: When my (now) hubby and I got together, we were both ethical vegans and shared many common interests about the issue. Recently, he ...

Dear Carolyn: I have two very close girlfriends who live in the same destination-friendly town, "Emily" from college and "Jane" from high school. Both have children the same age as mine, both mean a ...

Hi, Carolyn: Two weeks ago, my sister and brother-in-law said some horrible things about childless people — apparently forgetting that my husband and I, who have no children, were in the same room.

Hi Carolyn: I was making small talk at a work function when a woman asked if I had children. I said no. She expressed pity that I hadn’t experienced life’s greatest joy and said she couldn’t ...

Q: I have a friend who claims she can’t do activities because she works in a middle-income profession and is on a tight budget. We are both in our 50s, are in the same profession and make about the ...

While I’m away, readers give the advice. On failure, shame and selfhood: A letter-writer who was first in the family to divorce, saying, “I feel like a failure,” struck a chord with me. My favorite ...