Carolyn Hax: Living a great married life — and blindsided by a terrible crush

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Carolyn Hax: Living a great married life — and blindsided by a terrible crush
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After 17 happy years of marriage, this letter writer is now crushing on a friendly neighbor and doesn’t know what to do.

I am happily married with three awesome kids, a job I like and a pretty great overall work/life balance. And I find myself in an unfamiliar situation: I have a HUGE crush. This man is a friend and neighbor, we are in the same neighborhood social circles, our kids are friends, we carpool to kid activities, my husband is also close friends with him, and we have some professional overlap, too. Not only is it normal, your marriage can even get better for some mind-wanderings.

I think I have a crush on this answer. I’ve given similar advice in the past, but it was never this cute.Your son is 29. Only he can get himself into therapy at this point.Toothless dog named Wild Thang just won World’s Ugliest Dog contest

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