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Activities Tuesday, December 10, 2019 The Elk City News, Elk City, Oklahoma Page 7 Lonely husband gives more Rneys-—-Believe It or Notl than he’s getting from wife Dear Abby most two months. I receive no affection from her; she their bedrooms and only did small tasks such as vacuum DEAR ABBY: My wife never even touches me. I and mop the common areas. and I married in our early I genuinely thought I was don’t care about not hay- 40s. I have given my all to ing sex, but she won’t even her, but I have always felt touch my arm or try to hold being considerate by going underappreciated. my hand. I feel alone and above and beyond. I always wanted to be a lonely in my own home. When they returned, they father, but she didn’t want What can I do to change seemed shocked and even to have kids. After we were things? -- HEARTSICK slightly offended, and made MovERN. “TOILET RESTAURANT IN TAIWAN together for a few years, she HUSBAND jokes about how I must think SERVES FOOD IN changed her mind, so we de- they are messy. At the time, MINIATURE TOILET GowLs.~ cided to try for a child and DEAR HUSBAND: Tell it seemed fine, but I under- ‘won gocomies.com were surprised to discover your wife what you have stand now it may have been after only a week of trying written. She may be feeling that we were pregnant. A overwhelmed and exhausted misinterpreted. few months ago, we were from taking care of a brand- Did I cross a boundary, blessed with our beautiful, new baby, or suffer from a and should I avoid doing this healthy daughter. common condition called in the future? How should I My wife had difficulty postpartum depression. (It’s apologize? I feel terrible for with breastfeeding, so she sometimes referred to as the offending them. -- CLEAN- decided to stop and solely “baby blues” for a reason.) ING’S MY THING bottle-feed. I have been sup- Urge her to discuss how portive of her decision, but she has been feeling with DEAR C.M.T.: Stop beat- she still feels sad and guilty her OB/GYN because, with tly (81H- CENTURY PARIS, about it. [ have done all I can medical help, the condition ing yourself up and ASK pedHAWAIIAN Apuaper i! ONLY HAS IS LETTERS — | i} \T WAS FASHIONABLE TO Wear HATS AND UMBRELLAS WI your friend if she was of- to encourage and comfort is treatable. Please don’t \ FIVE VOWELS | LIGHTNING RODS MTacuED her, but she just brushes me wait because the sooner this fended that you mopped AND EIGHT CONSONANTS a | off. is dealt with, the better it will and dusted while you were I love my wife with all that be for all three of you. housesitting. If the answer Crossw T am, but I don’t feel loved is yes, apologize. And when in return. Since we started DEAR ABBY: I recently you do, explain that you are ACROSS dating, she has always called housesat for a friend and PREVIOUS PUZZLE SOLVED somewhat of a “neatnik” 1 Outdoor game ¢ “Babe.” Now she calls her family while they were and thought they would be 5 Angelina — of me by my first name. I tell on vacation because they films P/A|S|S/EBBDIAIN|T ERMCIO|L pleased to come home and herI love her every day, but needed someone to water 10 Curb O|M/A|H|ABMA/F/O|U L H/A/H find fewer chores needing she hasn’t said it back since their plants and take out their 14 Errant Gl U|MIB/E/REBMIAIRIG AIR/ LITA the baby was born. She also dog. Cleaning is a favorite to be done. 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