August 21, 2021 Issue, Page 5 of 8

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Activities August 21,2021 Former drug user looks fora Qwe,s—-Believe It or Not! way out of toxic relationship Dear Abby should respect you for it, too. Please do not allow your fear it hard to spend time with my parents since the visit is never of being alone to prevent you a happy one without nitpick- scientists DEAR ABBY: I’m a 39-year- from taking another impor- BELIEVE old woman in a toxic relation- tant step in reclaiming your ing. I'm wondering ifI can say fA PERIOD OF ship with my boyfriend of life. You and I both know your anything, and what to say. © EXTREME COLD IN almost seven years. We had abuser is not healthy for you. ANCIENT ROME I can’t even cut or color my | MAY HAVE SEEN a child together but lost cus- You have already invested too hair without ridicule. My old- , CAUSEDeYA tody due to drug use during much time in him. If you rely MASSIVE my pregnancy. Even though ‘on him for financial support, est got her nails done and there we don’t have our son, and he find a job. Make arrangements was a negative comment about treats me badly, I feel I have to with friends or family so you that as well. A few years ago, stay with him because we have can eventually save enough to there was a blowout between gone through so much togeth- live independently. my mom and me over my son’s er. After you have left him, be- A couple of years ago, I got ing alone does not necessarily haircut. I'm at the point where dentures because I ruined my have to be a bad thing. In your I no longer want to go to their teeth when I was using, and case it could be therapeutic. house, butI don’t want to keep now I'm afraid no one will And once you are financially my kids from them. ~ AN- want to be with me because stable, consult a dentist or a NOYED IN IDAHO of them. So I'm stuck in a re- school of dentistry about what lationship that isn’t good for options you might have be- me. It’s embarrassing to have sides dentures. The only thing DEAR ANNOYED: Say some- dentures at such a young age, holding you back at this point thing like this to your parents: and I don’t know howI will be is yourself. “I have noticed, and the chil- TOURNAMENT able to meet someone who can dren have started noticing, SCENE IN THE COMEDY FILM see past them and my drug his- DEAR ABBY: I am a 37-year- KINGPIN,” ACTOR BILL tory so I can be in a healthy re- old mother of three, ages 13, 5 that when you visit you usually IS USED AS SLANG MURRAY ACTUALLY BOWLED lationship that I deserve. I feeland 3. I'm married and own my have something negative to say FOR like my only choices are to stay home. [ama new stay-at-home about me, my home and even “wild” or “outrageous.” ASTOUNDED REACTION IN stuck in this toxic relationship mom after having worked for them. It is hurtful and I want it =e THE Mov’ le WAS forever or end up alone. How 16 years at my last job. My kids stopped, because if it persists REA Le do I move past my insecurities are happy and healthy. a CASTANO so I can be happy for once? -- you won't be invited.” And if it Any time I go to my parents’ EMBARRASSED IN ARIZONA house or they drop in on me does continue, please remem- Submitted by Nate Westbury. Minneapolis, MN. for a quick visit, they have to ber it is your right as your chil- DEAR EMBARRASSED: You “point out” that it is a mess or dren’s mother to buffer them Distributed by Andrews McMee! for UES, worspleyscom otc rv enenannenine, simanoneniom B- ZY have successfully battled drug that my oldest is wearing jeans from comments from their addiction, so you are clearly with holes in them. There's grandparents that make them not unused to “challenges.” always a negative comment, I applaud you for what you never a positive one. My oldest self-conscious about their ap- ‘osswi have accomplished, and others has started to notice. It makes pearance. 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