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….

Separating is not divorcing. Please keep that in mind. It is, instead, the second step in seeing if there's a better way to manage your family..

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion..

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

One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't "win," you won't change anyone's mind, you won't change any votes, you won't ….

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life..

Don't freight your answers with any notions of what you're "supposed" to do, and just see where your feelings point you. It can feel weird to be so f….

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it..

The topic of sexual education makes me nuts, because kids are certainly not now and have rarely ever been "clueless" about what adults do and delude ….

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally..

Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it..

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you..

Some people can work amid chaos or conversations, and some can't - and while there's no doubt an element of brain wiring to it, there's also the poss….

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to do the w….

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy..

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

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 somet….

Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean..

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….

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 co….

Make sure you have legal cover for what you're doing..