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DEAR ABBY ADVICE
Wife in middle of family feud faces painful choice Dear Abby: I’m an only child. My parents moved three miles from my husband and me after our first daughter was born. Mom’s life has always been centered around Dad, my daughters and me. She has never approved of my husband because he didn’t finish college and enlisted in the military, unlike Dad, who has two master’s degrees and retired from the Navy as a lieutenant commander. She regards my husband as the “sperm donor,” and that’s about all the credit he gets. Mom isn’t happy about anything unless she’s complaining. She resents that we spend part of Dad’s birthday with my husband’s family — never mind that it’s the anniversary of his father’s death. She has tried to discipline my daughters based on their grades, even though we have told her that her job is to “spoil them,” and it’s our job to discipline them. My husband now refuses to set foot in my parents’ home, and I dread the next event that will put them in the same place. I have asked them to agree to disagree, but both feel “justified” in their feelings. I feel I must make a choice between the two. Please help. — Torn in Two
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Cryptograms 1. The teen came to the end of the long application form and where it said, "sign here," wrote: "Pisces." 2. I made a genial agreement with my wife. I don’t try to run her life and I don’t try to run mine. 3. I was listening to rap music yesterday. I didn’t have a choice. It was coming from a Chevy convertible parked four blocks away. 4. We found out from our CPA that his annual accountants’ convention was very appropriately being held in Billings, Montana. 8/28
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Dear Torn: Since you must make a choice, choose your husband. If you don’t, you stand a good chance of being a divorced mother of two with overbearing parents judging every move you and your daughters make for the foreseeable future. Your parents owe you and your husband an apology, and frankly, you need to distance yourself from them until you are strong enough to establish some adult boundaries. Dear Abby: Sometimes my secretary says things like, “I could just kill myself” or, “Just shoot me!” Abby, my son took his life by shooting himself two years ago. She knows what happened. I don’t know what to say when I hear her utter those phrases, but it feels like someone has reached in and torn a piece of my heart out. Have you any advice for me? — Still Grieving For My Son Dear Still Grieving: Since it appears she hasn’t a clue, the next time she says it tell her not to do it again because of the tragedy your family has experienced firsthand involving guns and suicide. To receive a collection of Abby’s most memorable — and most frequently requested — poems and essays, send a business-sized, selfaddressed envelope, plus check or money order for $3.95 ($4.50 in Canada) to: Dear Abby’s “Keepers,” P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Postage is included.)
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