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Grandparents Overtaxed With Child Care Every Weekend
DEAR ABBY: My husband and I love our 7- and 2-year-old grandchildren very much and enjoy spending time with them. The issue is, we feel we are being taken advantage of. Our daughter and her husband are still married but lead separate lives. He works out of town and comes home most weekends. Her weekends usually begin on Friday when she "has to" ...Read more
Squabbling Parents Share Too Much Information
DEAR ABBY: My parents got into an argument because my father saw my mother looking at an old photo of herself from when she was younger. (It had been sent by her cousin via text.) In it, she was sitting next to "an ex-boyfriend or friend." My father thought it was disrespectful, but my mother didn't agree.
Mom thought it was trivial for him to ...Read more
Bullying Son-In-Law Turns Grandmother Away From Family
DEAR ABBY: My daughter has been married to her high school sweetheart for 15 years. Their marriage has been rocky from the start due to her husband's "God" complex. He's a spoiled brat and a compulsive liar. He has not only caused mayhem in his own family but has nearly destroyed ours. He was extremely disrespectful to his late parents, and ...Read more
Clingy Girlfriend's Behavior Could Be A Marriage Red Flag
DEAR ABBY: I am a 47-year-old male who is 20 days from being divorced. For the past three months, I have been dating a woman I've known for 26 years. We love each other and plan to be married. We have great times when we are together but struggle on the phone or with texting. I'm not sure why this is, but she says it's because we need to be ...Read more
Chance Encounter Still Burns In Divorced Neighbor
DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced man in my 60s. Twelve years ago, a neighbor woman who I'm attracted to popped into my house to have a smoke break out on my back deck. When she arrived, I was in the shower. She came in like she always did (she had permission) and walked over to the fireplace. As she turned, she took two steps and froze because at that...Read more
Co-Worker's 'Raging Crush' Must Be Tamed
DEAR ABBY: After six years of working closely together, I have developed a raging crush on my co-worker and project partner, "Brett." It's a full-on, face-flushing, daydreaming kind of situation, and it's super annoying. I know this crush is inappropriate and unreciprocated, and I have no intention of acting on it. We are both married, and I ...Read more
Lying Husband's Unexpected Announcement Leaves Wife Devastated
DEAR ABBY: I became ill a few months ago and spent 10 days in the hospital before moving to a rehab center to recover. My husband worked at the facility where I became a patient. Two weeks into my rehab, he announced that when I went home, he would not be there, and that he was filing for divorce. He refused to give me a solid reason why. Our 30...Read more
Wife Blames Mother For Her Own Infidelity
DEAR ABBY: When my daughter, "Trish," and her husband separated, I reached out to each of them for occasional check-ins. Trish left him after confessing to infidelity via email. He messaged me with a copy of what she'd written, which included some damning things about me -- that she was "like" me and that I am "not a good person." She never ...Read more
Third Party's Arrival Leads To Friendship's Demise
DEAR ABBY: After moving into a 55-plus community seven years ago, I became close friends with my neighbors, "Iris" and her husband. She was widowed five years ago, and I began a relationship four years ago, but my boyfriend and I always included Iris and my other girlfriends in our activities.
Iris became friendly with "Barb," a woman at her ...Read more