January 5, 2022 Issue, Page 6 of 10

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6 Activities January 5, 2022 Parents wonder if son’s friendship may be more address this ahead of anything After that, I found out she Dear Abby occurring. We will love our son used to be a prostitute and regardless and support him lived with him for a few weeks DEAR ABBY: My preteen throughout our lives. I don’t and that he has been offered son is friends with a boy I don’t want to make him feel singled sex by her. He went into a pan- quite approve of, but I under- out by what may be usual pu- ic when she was in the hospital stand that sometimes bad de- bescent behavior. My husband and he didn’t know where she cisions lead to future wisdom. and I are in our 30s/40s. We was. He swears up and down When I can, I allow the friend live in an extremely rural area, that it’s me he loves, not her. to come to our house to hang and this is my son’s only real Help, please. -- COMPETING out with my son because this friend. Any insight would be IN GEORGIA friend allegedly has a difficult appreciated. -- WONDERING home life. ON THE FARM DEAR COMPETING: Do During this last visit, I no- some digging. Who is the ticed them hanging out a little DEAR WONDERING: You source of the information you physically closer than usual. may be jumping to conclusions are being given? Is that person They shared the same recliner unnecessarily. Sitting close to a reliable source, or could there to play video games, talked to play video games and sharing be an ulterior motive? For a each other using gamer tags inside jokes with a best friend and the like, and had what I caregiver to “go into a panic” are not necessarily signs of be- assume were numerous inside if his patient disappears would ing gay. It is what best friends jokes. not be unusual. that age do. Whatever your My husband and I would And, while it’s possible that boy’s sexual orientation may never belittle, degrade or de- be, you say you will love and he is driving to the lake and go- nounce our children for being support him regardless, so this ing out to dinner in his role as a gay. We know we’re from a shouldn’t be a problem. His caregiver, if the person paying bygone era, and we do not as- sexual orientation will reveal the tab is him, then it’s a date, sume our particular values are itself in its own time. and he hasn’t been truthful held by our children. We have with you. I would be interested discussed it and know how to DEAR ABBY: Please help me in what you find out. Please approach it from our perspec- figure out whether I’ve made a write back and let me know. tive if our son announces his major mistake. I’ve been dat- orientation. I’m not even cer- ing this man, “Frank,” for six Dear Abby is written by Abigail tain my perception of his close- months. He has another wom- Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Crossword ness with his friend is accurate. an in his life that he told me Phillips, and was founded by her My husband is more worldly he’s only a caregiver for, but mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact than I am, and he says this kind then I learned he has been tak- Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com of behavior is not unusual in ing her to the lake and out to or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, Current puzzle answers the EU. Neither of us wants to dinner. CA 90069. Get Fuzzy Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield Dilbert