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Activities 6 - The Elk City News April 22, 2023 Fiance’s Sister Is Center Of The IPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Family’s Attention Beaver teetu are once the parents pass on, Sissy DARE ORAI Dear Abby and I'm not saying I know family is important, he shouldn't may need her brother more AND SUPER STRONG help his sister. I have talked BECAUSE THEIR ENAMEL DEAR ABBY: I am marrying with him about this on mul- than ever. CONTAINS HIGH LEVELS the most amazing man next tiple occasions, but he doesn’t OF IRON! year. We have been together for seem to understand or isn’t DEAR ABBY: I dated a guy six years. I have always gotten interested in talking about it. long distance for eight months. along with his family and know Am I being unreasonable? Is Whenever he was in my state they will be great in-laws. How- there anything I can or should ever, as time has gone by, I've do to feel otherwise about it? for work, I'd go see him. Two noticed that they cater more How do I cope with my feelings months ago, he suddenly B crassic and more to my fiance’s older about this? - ANNOYED IN ghosted me! Two days prior to LEGO erick sister. She's nearly 30, but she ILLINOIS acts like she’s 13. that, everything was fine. We IS MADE FROM THE When she has an argument DEAR ANNOYED: What texted and had a wonderful SAME TYPE OF PLASTIC with her spouse, she calls my concerns me about your letter phone conversation. I'm at a ASA fiance and makes it sound so isn’t that your fiance goes run- loss. At first I was sad about it, STANDARD HARD HAT! dramatic that he drops every- ning to his sister’s side when but now I’m angry. I want an- thing and runs to her rescue. he gets one of her “emergency Invariably, it turns out to not calls.” What troubles me is that swers, which I know I probably be as bad as she was saying. when you tell him something won't get. What do you think She also talks so badly about bothers you, he “isn’t interest- happened? -- LEFT HANGING her spouse to her parents that ed in talking about it.” I feel embarrassed for him. If If Sissy and her husband IN CALIFORNIA Bor HUNDREDS OF she’s sick or home alone (her feel it's safer for her to spend YEARS, INUIT IN husband travels for work), she nights with her parents when DEAR LEFT: Long-Distance NORTHERN sleeps at her parents’ house he travels and the parents wel- Guy may have met another GREENLAND MADE with her infant son instead come her, I see no reason why WEAPONS AND TOOLS of staying in her own home, you should be critical of her for woman and ghosted you be- which is a town away. it. However, that your fiance cause he wasn’t man enough OUT OF IRON Her family does EVERY- would cut short a date or some to be upfront about it. Another HARVESTED THING for her -- things that other activity you are involved possibility is that he was never FROM METEORITES. a capable adult should do for in together strikes me as over herself. Many times, my fiance the top if it isn’t a true emer- available in the first place. This 2023 Ripley Entertainment Ine. wnrsinleys.com worw.gocomie.com Diatrbuted by Ancrows Memoet tor urs. 4-22 and I have been on a date or gency. is why long-distance relation- spending time with each other, As I see it, you can either ac- ships can be risky unless you and then his sister calls and cept this as part of their family ‘ossword he leaves me to cater to her. dynamic, or rethink marrying know the person well, and It hurts my feelings when he into that family, because they why it’s a safer bet to focus on does this. are not going to change — and someone local. 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