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Daily Corinthian • Sunday, December 22, 2013 • 9A

Distraught daughter won’t let longtime couple tie the knot DEAR ABBY: I’m 50 and my boyfriend, “Ray,” is 55. We have been together for 11 years. He’s divorced with two children. I am single and childless. We owned our own homes until a year ago, when we sold them and bought a house together. We each pay half the bills including the mortgage. We love each other, get along great, have similar values and can’t imagine not being together. My problem is I want to get married. Ray does, too, but his 20-year-old daughter isn’t ready for it yet. She and I get along fine, but she gets very stressed and cries when the topic is mentioned. I told Ray I think she has learned from her childhood that crying enables her to get her way. But Ray insists she has anxiety issues, and he’s afraid she will hurt herself if we get married. Counseling is out of the question for her. She won’t go. Ray and I did go for advice about this. The counselor agreed that his daughter needs counseling, but we can’t “make” her go. My question is, is Ray ever going to marry me? Any suggestions on what we should do? – CONFUSED IN NEW JERSEY DEAR CONFUSED: If Ray waits for his daughter’s blessing, it may take another 11 years for her to give it – if she ever does. You and Ray should get more counseling to help him find the strength to stop allowing his troubled daughter to rule his life. DEAR ABBY: My hog-mouth

husband and I are having an ongoing disagreement about food. When there is special food in Abigail the house, ething Van Buren sweo mboth like, he feels free Dear Abby to eat as much of it as he wants without leaving any for me. His argument is that if it’s around for several days, I have had “plenty of time to get my share.” I feel it shouldn’t be up to him to tell me how much to eat, and when. He weighs almost twice as much as I do, and eats accordingly. It’s particularly upsetting if I have invested hours in the preparation of a dish, only to find it’s gone when I want my second helping. I think he is being inconsiderate at best. Am I wrong? – WHERE’S MY BEEF?! DEAR “WHERE’S”: I don’t think so. Your husband is behaving like a selfish child. If you have been cooking in large quantities, try preparing only enough for two portions for a while – a LONG while. DEAR ABBY: My 30-year-old niece passed away, leaving a 7-year-old daughter. Her grieving husband found a married woman two months later. She divorced her second husband, and now all

three of them are living together. Abby, the little girl is not allowed to tell anyone that her mommy died and has to tell all her friends that her father’s new girlfriend is her mom. Is it right to keep her from talking about her mommy? – MARIA FROM TEXAS DEAR MARIA: Of course not! While the father and his girlfriend might wish to erase the child’s mother from her memory, she is old enough to remember not only that her mother died, but also that her father and this woman want to bury the fact that she ever existed. That child NEEDS to talk about her mother, and to forbid it will cause problems when she is older. Count on it. DEAR ABBY: I work with several women who are Hispanic. They are all very nice and I love working with them. The problem is when they are together they speak Spanish. I do not understand a word they say, so I am left out of the conversation. How can I let them know how rude I think this is? – LEFT OUT IN TEXAS DEAR LEFT OUT: Say it in English, and if they are as nice as you say they are, they will make an effort to include you. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Horoscopes ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you keep going to the same sources for excitement, what you get will cease to be exciting. See what else is out there. To please you, it doesn’t have to be bigger and better; it really just has to be new. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Is there anything wetter than water? Is there anything hotter than fire? What you need to know today may seem like a strange thing to ask, but ask it anyway, because you’ll be among brilliant minds. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Delusions aren’t always symptoms of mental disorder. Just because they challenge and contradict what’s generally accepted as reality doesn’t mean they are unhealthy or even untrue. CANCER (June 22-July 22). One person seems to receive you with more clarity than everyone else. When this person reflects your most brilliant qualities, you can take it as hard evi-

dence that this is a truly special connection. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). When you feel safe and comfortable, you perform better. That’s why wearing weather-appropriate clothing and the right shoes could make a significant contribution to your success. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). At certain times in your life, you’ve cared more about social acceptance than at other times. Right now, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being caring a great deal, you care about a 1. And that’s why you’re so popular. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Birds of a feather, the saying goes -although you may look around your “flock” today and think that you’re nothing like them. There’s a reason for why you’re flying in this group, though. Can you tell what it is? SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You can’t expect yourself to get where you’re going without training. Put in the hours. The way to

make it to the end of the course is to get over a small hurdle and then another and another. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). When you’re presenting a product to the world, it’s important that you know how it compares with the other competing products. But you’re not a product. Comparing is just a bad idea now. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Don’t agonize. Do the work with a smile on your face. If it’s the kind of work you can’t seem to do that way, then skip it. Tomorrow is another day. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Does it seem you’re getting smarter, noticing more and connecting with others on deeper levels? These are the spoils of taking on greater responsibility. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). What works in theory doesn’t always pan out in practice. Put your ideas to the test, and when they work, test them again to make sure it wasn’t a fluke.

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