June 25, 2022 Issue, Page 6 of 14

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Activities June 25, 2022 Live-In Boyfriend shames Rine,'s——-Believe It or Not!/- woman for being a mother You've Got 70 BE KITTEN mel Dear Abby are starting to rear their ugly heads. I don’t know how to talk event and sitting at a table with more than six people? I Wnver THE RIGHT CONDITIONS, A SINGLE LINE DRAWN ON THE HE SITE IN ROME WHERE to him because he gets defen- think it’s rude to talk toa per- GROUND CAN PUT A CHICKEN INTO JULIE CASA WAS KILLED DEAR ABBY: I am a divorced sive and gaslights any issues I son across the table. Talking to A STATE OF “TONIC IMMOBILITY,” NOW CONTAINS A mother of two teenagers. I've bring up. I don’t feel safe shar- a person next to you is accept- ESSENTIALLY FREEZING ‘SANCTUARY been seeing my boyfriend, ing my hurt with him, let alone THE BIRD IN PLACE! FOR STRAY CATS! “Sean,” for almost five years, able. Talking to someone across and when the pandemic start- sharing my anger at him for the table is rude because the ‘Supmarrer ev Kyue Aur, Sanroeo, FL. ed, he moved in with us. I am trying to make me feel bad for other diners must stop talking supposed to share custody of being a mom. I'm losing hope to the person seated next to my teens with their father, and feel myself shutting down. them and be forced to listen to alternating weeks. However, How can I approach him in a your conversation. Seeing this his job requires travel, and way that he won't get defen- happen is becoming more and the kids are with me more of- sive? — FIGHTING A LOSING more annoying. What do you ten than not, with little to no BATTLE think? - FORCED TO LISTEN notice. They are also reaching an age where they don’t really DEAR FIGHTING: There are DEAR FORCED: While that want to go to their dad’s all the red flags all over your letter. rule of etiquette may have time. You are going to be an active This has caused some ten- mother until your children been true in Edwardian times, sion with my boyfriend. He are at least 18. That this man table etiquette today is no lon- Sunvaren Kyu Aue, Sanroo, FL, feels we never get “alone time” would move into your home ger so rigid. While, of course, anymore. He then withholds and give you heartburn about it is desirable to converse with the guests seated next to you, SVMIEDEW ure nore tHAv 267,000 teLanve, affection from me, as if I've your responsibilities is terrible. unless communicating with BUT FEWER THAN [,OOO ARE POPULATED. done something wrong by hav- You state that your sex life is ‘Suswarren ey Kyue Auwe, Sanrorp, Fl. ing my kids. Since he moved over, and when you raise other someone across the table re- Ot a, in, our sex life has dwindled to important issues, he gaslights quires one to shout — which almost nonexistent. He refuses you. This does not bode well for would be distracting and dis- to be intimate when the kids a healthy future. ruptive — I see nothing rude are home, yet he hasn’t made His defensiveness when you about it. the most of the “alone time” attempt to have an adult dis- we do have when the kids cussion with him isn’t your Dear Abby is written by Abi- aren't here. He usually goes to real problem. Getting him out gail Van Buren, also known of your home and your life Distributed by Androws McMeo! for UFS. wwwsipleys.com_www.gocomice.com ” © 2022 Ripley Entertainment Inc. bed early, without so much as before he wastes any more of as Jeanne Phillips, and was a goodnight kiss. Or he'll go your time is what you should founded by her mother, Pau- Crossword out on weekend days and not focus on. line Phillips. Contact Dear indude me. Abby at www.DearAbby.com or I have been cheated on in DEAR ABBY: What is proper P.O. 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