December 22, 2021 Issue, Page 7 of 30

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7 December 22 , 2021 Activities Late mother’s surprising lifestyle comes to light with, and it’s not a subject my During their last fight, I threat- Dear Abby husband wants to talk about. ened to run away and not tell Your thoughts, please. -- EM- Tom or Josh where I was. I’m DEAR ABBY: I was never BARRASSED IN OREGON on eggshells every day and close to my mother-in-law, “Ag- nes.” She always came across don’t know what to do. Tom DEAR EMBARRASSED: I as very religious and morally agree that it would be of no is on disability, and I’m still upright. She recently died of benefit to your brother-in-law working. I am so frustrated dementia. It came on so fast or your son to learn their re- I could scream. Can you help that there were things Agnes spected parents/grandparents me? -- FAMILY PEACEMAKER needed to take care of but was were swingers -- including the unable to. My husband was ex- intimate details of the encoun- DEAR PEACEMAKER: I’ll ecutor of her estate, so we had ters. I’m voting for keeping the try, but it will involve you be- to go through all of her things past buried along with Agnes. ing strong enough to draw a and have them appraised after she passed. firm line and stand behind DEAR ABBY: My adult son One afternoon, my hus- “Josh” has moved into the it. Insist that your son start band discovered a small bind- home I share with my signifi- counseling for his anger man- er tucked in the back of his cant other, “Tom.” Josh is 30, agement problems, which are mother’s lingerie drawer. He and Tom is in his 60s. Josh at the root of his employment looked through it and to say has difficulty holding jobs and and marital difficulties, or he he was “shaken” would be an leaves in fits of anger if some- will no longer be welcome in understatement. He let me one upsets him at work. This YOUR home. Give him a dead- read it. Apparently, his par- has put me in the middle. line to start and do not waffle. ents enjoyed wife-swapping, When he and Tom get angry at and Agnes took notes detail- each other, they begin shout- If you stand your ground, you ing her activities. My husband ing. will not only change the direc- hasn’t mentioned it since, and I own the home we live in, so tion of Josh’s life but also may has left it to me to deal with. I I could ask both to move out. I save your own romance. have no idea what to do with it, would also like to help my son but we certainly won’t share it find a job and housing so I can Dear Abby is written by Abi- with his deeply religious broth- stop worrying about him being gail Van Buren, also known er or our son, who thought the on his own with no place left as Jeanne Phillips, and was world of the only grandmother to go. Josh is married. His wife Crossword founded by her mother, Pau- he’d known. lives with her parents nearby. I hesitate to destroy her Josh can’t stay there because line Phillips. Contact Dear property, but I don’t feel it’ll he made hurtful comments to Abby at www.DearAbby.com or benefit anyone to keep it. There her mother. P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, Current puzzle answers is no one I can discuss this I just want us all to get along. CA 90069. Get Fuzzy Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield Dilbert