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		<title><![CDATA[Splitting the Mental Load Makes for a Healthy Marriage]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My husband is a wonderful man in many ways, but lately I
feel more like the household manager than his wife. We both work full
time, yet somehow I am still the one remembering birthdays, scheduling
appointments, keeping track of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4078472</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Choosing Peace Over an Endless Battle]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I have read your responses to letters about barking dogs and
neighborhood noise, and I appreciate the calm, compassionate way you
approach these conflicts. You encourage people to start with empathy,
assume good intentions and try to...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4077481</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Torn Between Sympathy and Self-Respect]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My sister-in-law, "Kay," was once one of my closest friends.
For more than 25 years, we were there for each other through everything:
marriages, divorce, raising children, heartbreak and all the ordinary
ups and downs of life. We ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4076485</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Standing Firm With Family]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My husband has three children from his first marriage. For
the first 20 years of us being married, everything was great. But the
last 15 years have been hell with two of the children. They became super
religious and political to the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4075406</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Laughing Off Accountability]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My brother-in-law is constantly making offensive and
over-the-top jokes. Whenever I call him out, he tells me I'm "too
sensitive."

To me, that's the same as saying, "I don't care about your feelings and
I'm going to blame this ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4074589</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When Language Rubs the Wrong Way]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I live in a 55-plus community and have met many people and
made lots of friends since moving in here. I am not a prude, but I find
it very disturbing how the F-bomb and swearing is so prevalent in this
community. I'm in my 60s, a ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4073846</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trapped in a Cycle of Comfort and Guilt]]></title>
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Dear Annie: From the outside, my life looks steady and full. I have a
thoughtful husband, grown children who stay in close touch, dear friends
and work that gives my days purpose. I know I am fortunate, which only
makes it harder to admit how ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4072852</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bitter Divorce Threatens To Break up Family]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My wife and her sister have always had a close but delicate
relationship. They can talk for hours, laugh about old family stories
and check in on each other several times a week. But every so often,
something shifts, and my sister-in...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4071779</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lost in Mixed Signals and Broken Expectations]]></title>
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Dear Annie: About six months ago, I grew close to a woman I had known
casually for some time. She had recently come out of a painful breakup,
and what began as friendship quickly turned into something much more
emotionally intimate. We talked ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4070618</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scrolling My Life Away]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I used to think I had decent self-control. Now I'm not so
sure.

Somewhere along the way, Instagram became the background music of my
life. I wake up and reach for my phone before my eyes are fully open. I
tell myself I'm just ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4069373</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Private Matters, Public Knowledge]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I love your advice and the fact you're able to cut to the
chase. I find myself in need of your level head, too!

I've been (mostly) happily married for 26 years. My husband is very
gregarious and never met a stranger. In fact, he ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4068512</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/18/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Uneven Split]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My friend insists on splitting every restaurant bill
"evenly," no matter what. The problem is, she always orders cocktails
and appetizers, while I usually stick to one entree.

Last week, my $22 dinner somehow became $48 after the "...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4068098</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Resetting a Pandemic Friendship]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My neighbor and I became friendly during the pandemic. We'd
pick up things for each other at the grocery store, help water each
other's plants, chat on our porches in the evening.

Somewhere along the way, she decided we were much ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4067480</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/16/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Handle In-Laws Hurling Insults]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I have been married for 12 years to a good man whom I love
very much, but I dread nearly every holiday, birthday dinner and casual
Sunday visit with his family. On the surface, my in-laws are charming,
polished and the sort of people...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4066630</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Still Doing It Alone After Decades of Marriage]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I have been married for 45 years, and the silence in my
marriage feels deafening. It did not happen overnight. It built slowly
over the years, like a snowball rolling downhill, growing larger and
heavier until it now seems to fill ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4065640</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/14/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Retired Husband Is Rewriting House Rules]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My husband retired eight months ago, and ever since then,
our home has felt less like a place to relax and more like a company he
has decided to manage. After years of leaving early, coming home late
and barely noticing whether the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4064317</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/13/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Temper Young Love Without Breaking It]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My husband and I are the parents of an 18-year-old son who
is a kind, thoughtful and deeply romantic young man. He has been dating
the same girl since junior year of high school, and like many first
loves, theirs feels very big, very...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4063279</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/12/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[When a Wedding Invite Asks Too Much]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My husband and I are invited to my co-worker's daughter's
midweek black-tie wedding at 3 p.m. My husband and I would need to leave
work early to attend, and I feel it's a burden to both take time off
work and purchase or rent black-...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4062189</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/11/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bright Light, Sleepless Nights]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My neighbor "Rod" installed a motion-activated floodlight
that shines directly into our bedroom window every time our dog (or
another animal) moves in the yard -- which is often. It goes off all
night long.

I mentioned it once, and ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4061318</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Standing Firm When Family Is Divided]]></title>
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Dear Annie: Hopefully you can help me. I've read your column for years.
My two kids are adults and have kids of their own, and they have always
gotten along. However, last Thanksgiving, my son and his family decided
not to stay when they found ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4060690</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/09/2026</pubDate>
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