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		<title><![CDATA[Neighbor's Dream Home Is Being Built at My Expense]]></title>
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Dear Annie: My husband and I have lived in our modest home for many
years in a quiet, beautiful neighborhood where the houses have always
felt gracious and in scale with one another. We are not extravagant
people, and our little house has never ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4084271</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Just Tell Me' Is Not Enough]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I have a teenager who is bright, funny and, in many ways, a
good kid. They do well in school, have friends and can be thoughtful
when it counts. But when it comes to life at home, it is as if none of
it registers.

I feel like I am ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4083269</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Upstaged and Still Upset]]></title>
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Dear Annie: "Ashton," a popular boy from my child's elementary school
class, moved away in the middle of last year. A couple of months later,
his mom let me know they would be visiting. She asked if I would
organize some of Ashton's classmates ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4081893</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[From Co-Worker to Confidante]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I work in a small office where everyone is friendly, but one
co-worker has taken "friendly" to a new level. Over the past year, she's
begun confiding in me about deeply personal issues: her marriage
troubles, financial stress, ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4081088</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chasing Success, Losing Sleep]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I was really excited when I landed my dream job a few months
ago. It has great pay and a title that can really take me places. But
now, just a few months in, I'm pulling my hair out. We're in our "busy
season," which means lots of ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4080430</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Holding Firm on Boundaries With Estranged Family]]></title>
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Dear Annie: I am a woman in my early 40s, living several states away
from the town where I grew up. My relationship with my parents has
always been complicated, especially with my mother, and for the last 25
years I have also been estranged from...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/dearannie/s-4079425</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/29/2026</pubDate>
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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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