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Activities 6- The Elk City News November 16, 2022 Husband Feels Powerless Amid Qwe,s——-Believe It or Not! Marriage Struggles ) Ervis Prestey NEVER PLAYED A WILDERED IN CANADA bond over, but he doesn’t seem CONCERT OUTSIDE Dear Abby to want me involved at all. oF DEAR BEWILDERED: It’s | feel like I’m being cheated DEAR ABBY: I married for time for joint counseling, the second time two years ago with a new therapist for you on, as silly as that sounds. I'm AM#RICA. to a younger woman. Seven and your wife. I can’t think struggling with my body im- age because of this. I feel like months after our wedding, she of a better way to drive her announced she didn’t like my away than continuing to ob- T'm never going to be adequate dominating personality, which sess about what she “may” be enough for him to focus on our is why she was stepping out of doing on these outings. It is sex life. How do I compete with the marriage. She then went hard to envision her carrying porn? -- SHUT OUT IN VIR- back to her deadbeat ex-boy- on flagrantly with a child in GINIA friend for six months. I went tow; the activities you describe for counseling and have made seem distinctly family-orient- DEAR SHUT OUT: You don’t. a major change in howI treat, ed to me. It appears you still Tell your boyfriend that his THERE ARE NO talk and make decisions with expect her to conform to your her. I love my wife with all my idea of how a married woman reliance on porn is negatively PRIVATE BEACHES IN heart. I want to protect our “should” behave, or you're hav- affecting your self-esteem and MEXICO — ALL OF THEM marriage and move forward ing serious trust issues, More you are no longer willing to be ARE OPEN TO from the affair. counseling for you may be in involved with him because of Our second anniversary is order if your marriage is going it. If he’s in love with you and PUBLIC USE, approaching, but she has been to last. willing to work on the problem, interacting with other men. there are resources available to She takes her daughter with DEAR ABBY: I’ve been with him. (Twelve-step programs CASTANO another man on_play-dates my boyfriend for four years. come immediately to mind.) If along with his daughter, and Over those years, he has ac- goes to the park with another quired an addiction to porn. he isn’t, however, accept that man for three hours. (He was a He refuses to admit he is ad- this has NOTHING to do with single dad having a BBQ) The dicted and insists that it's per- your level of attractiveness, third oneis a guy she goes with fectly normal. I'm usually not and move on. GALIFORWIA wasits to the park, splash pads, pub- one to judge, but it has reached OWN COUNTRY FOR lic swimming pool and a wa- the point that it’s affecting our Dear Abby is written by Ab- 25 vave niSt6! ter-slide park. They text each sex life. igail Van Buren, also known other often. One guy is a mar- I can’t remember the last as Jeanne Phillips, and was Distributed by Andrews Motes! for UES. ©2022 Ripley Entertainment Ine. wwwiploya.con wwgocomicacom 11-16) ried stay-at-home dad. He has time we had a moment to our- cheated on his wife before. founded by her mother, Pau- selves that didn’t start with Am I wrong to think this is him spending all day watching line Phillips. Contact Dear Crossword unacceptable for a married porn. I tried getting involved Abby at www.DearAbby.com or woman? Any advice would be with it myself hoping we'd find BO. Box 69440, Los Angeles, ACROSS absolutely appreciated. -- BE- a common interest we could CA 90069. 1 Valley of grapes © aver floater. 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