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Activities October 16, 2021 Husband resents wife’s life outside of home decided to elope. Many couples Dear Abby because, at some point, you may need a safe escape plan. do this, and it shouldn't result ina family feud. DEAR ABBY: I’ve been with DEAR ABBY: I have been liv- my husband for eight years, ing with my boyfriend, a stal- DEAR ABBY: This is the time tue FASTEST WIND SPEED married for one. Before our wart and loving partner, for of year when the leaves begin EVER RECORDED WAS PRODUCED marriage, it was just the two of seven years. He proposed re- to change into their fall colors. BY A TORNADO AT BRIDGE us doing everything together. cently and, of course, I said yes! It is also when the media refers CREEK, OKLAHOMA, IN MAY (999, He has a strong distrust of My brother lives in a large city, to the people who come to look REACHING MORE THAN people, and doesn’t have any and because I had attended 300 MILES PER HOUR! friends. We moved to a bigger their church, I asked him if we at those colorful leaves as “leaf city where I found a better job could be married there. Now peepers.” and made new friends. I go out he and his wife need to talk to I don’t know how the term with them occasionally, but us in person to assure the min- came about, but trust me, no when I do, he is very rude and isters that my fiance and I are one is walking around peep- snide to me. When I ask him “evenly yoked” and willing to ing like baby chicks. The cor- QM? why he’s mad if I go out with make a public proclamation of rect term is “leaf PEEKERS.” my friends, he says, “It’s always our faith. A teacher I once had explained been me and you, no one else.” My fiance is not religious. it to our class this way: “This We fight every time I go out. He is willing to do whatever it is the time of year when the I'm tired of all of it. Do you takes to make me happy and tourists arrive to take a peek have advice for me? -- SICK OF says he’s willing to “take the at our leaves when the colors EXPLAINING hit” for me, but I can’t stand are at their peak.” Just wanted the idea of seeing him uncom- to share, Abby. -- JAY IN BEN- N FARMER DEAR SICK: Yes. Recognize fortable on a day that should BEN JACKSON HONORED HIS NINGTON, VT that you married an antisocial,bea happy one. How can Iback LATE AUNT BY ARRANGING A deeply insecure and verbally out of this situation without HERD OF SHEEP INTO A HEART DEAR JAY: Live and learn. abusive man. He views any re- alienating my brother, who ‘Thank VIEWASLE FROM THE AIR! lationship you have with some- is the only immediate family you for explaining it to one other than him as a threat, this dumb cluck. I have left? - CRINGING IN eASTAnO "©2021 Ripley Entertainment ne. so he is punishing you for it. COLORADO Weean SPEED EATER MIKE JACK PEELED AND Also, recognize that his anger Dear Abby is written by Abi- ATE A BANANA WITHOUT USING HIS HANDS IN and his need to control you will DEAR CRINGING: Thank gail Van Buren, also known SUST 37782 SECONDS! only escalate. You may be “sick your brother and his wife as Jeanne Phillips, and was 10-16 of explaining,” but your hus- WARMLY for their willingness founded by her mother, Pau- band is sick, period. I'm advis- to help you and your fiance, but line Phillips. Contact Dear ing you to make a discreet call explain that the two of you feel Abby at www.DearAbby.com or to the National Domestic Vio- a smaller wedding would be BO. Box 69440, Los Angeles, osswi lence Hotline (800-799-7233) more appropriate, so you have CA 90069. ACROSS 1M TENA J Sor wearer puzle a ladius’s companion VIN{A|X MEE! 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