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Activities August 24, 2022 The Beckham County Record- 7 Wife Keeps Bringing Up Rmmeys—-Believe It or Not’ Husband’s Long Affair Bevieve If OF Now, go online and start talking to sure and acquiesced, and then Dear Abby someone. He swears he won't slept with him a second time. do this to me again and he’s so My boyfriend was still over- DEAR ABBY: I have known sorry for what he did. Please seas, and I couldn't tell if he RESEARCH SUGGESTS my husband my whole life. We have been married 20 years advise. -- TOTALLY LOST IN NEW JERSEY had any intention of returning, “THE AVERAGE PERSON and have three teenage chil- ‘This acquaintance has yet to HAS MORE THAN dren. Last year, 1 caught him DEAR TOTALLY LOST: I’m send me even a thorn, much 6,000 tHoucHTs cheating. Turned out he had glad counseling helped you less petal from a rose during PER DAY. been with someone for sev- and your husband through the past three years and has en years. Our children and I the rough patch. Now it’s time ghosted me a number of times. wa . <a) y were devastated, and he swore for some more -- for YOU, to Should I entertain the idea of up and down he'd never do it help you cope with your inse- seeing him, let alone think fue onty U.S. PRESIDENT again. curity issues. Making yourself there could be anything more? WHO LEARNED ENGLISH AS A T am occasionally triggered crazy over what he “might” do Tm divorced, my children are SECOND LANGUAGE, MARTIN by things I see, things he says during his year of deployment grown and I haven't enjoyed VAN BUREN, WAS ALSO THE or does, or things I know he isn’t helping you or the state FIRST PRESIDENT TO SE BORN of your marriage. You have to any male company for the last has done with her. When it happens, I usually bring up make a decision about wheth- 14 years. All this time I've just A U.S. CITIZEN, the affair again. He can’t stand er to trust your husband -- and been tending to my family. -- that I do. He says we have to then proceed from there. DESIRING MORE THAN CY- put it in the past and work on BERLOVE our marriage. I told him this DEAR ABBY: An acquain- "KeRAUNOPHOBIA” may be easy for him to do, but tance from 40 years ago con- I’m not that kind of person. I tacted me three years ago after, YouDEAR DESIRING MORE: may be lonely, but please, tend to overanalyze and dwell he claims, searching for and on things. finding me on social media. We start thinking rationally. For (IS THE We have been to marriage have been speaking on and off your own sake, do not become EXTREME FEAR counseling, and I was grateful since then, but he’s now calling further involved with a man for that because he was always every day (sometimes twice a who would seduce a woman OF LIGHTNING against it. It helped somewhat. day) saying he’s making travel who is dating his friend and OR THUNDER, I need to know how to stop plans to come see me. He lives who has ghosted you “a num- bringing up these matters be- in Canada; I'm in Massachu- ber of times” in the last few cause it is ruining my health and our marriage. I love him setts. Way back when, he begged years. During the periods in ipleye.com www.gocomice.com Distributed by Andrews McMeel for UFS. 8-24 very much. me to sleep with him, knowing which you have been ghosted One more point: I'm inse- I was dating his best friend. and lonely, it appears he has cure because he is in the mil- His friend was out of town at been very busy! ‘This person itary and due to be deployed the time. Shocked and blind- is not to be trusted with your ACROSS for a year. I'm afraid he may sided, I caved under his pres- heart or anything else. 1 Writer Franz — P oS er SIMIOJAABRN|V|d|/SHS/D/S/S SEIN ENDE ME TO Srocket of MEIN Mel Seon 14 Pride members SILI ILIA|S|/DBBG)S/1/3\SId/NiIA Get Fuzzy 15 Keg party site NO. Bi Sigiujniojo 16 Tien Shan range RNENERIE oInlo 17 eebtey kin SEINE! 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