July 19, 2023 Issue, Page 4 of 6

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4- The Elk City News Activities July 19, 2023 Boyfriend Rages When @IPLEY’S Believe It or Not! Demands For Sex Are Denied com ee Un Arr 2023, 4 GERMAN COURT RULED THAT financial life to get her off my A LANDLORD SUNBATHING Dear Abby lence Hotline (800-799-7233) and ask for help formulating back. NAKED IN THE COURTYARD OF HIS BUILDING WASN'T a plan to safely escape your Asking her to stop harassing & REASON FOR HIS DEAR ABBY: I'm a 37-year- old stay-at-home mother of this man is. abuser, because that is what me has led to more (public) TENANTS TO REDUCE statements about my “stin- THEIR RENTAL PAYMENTS! two teens. I've been in a re- giness.” Now other people in lationship with a guy I'll call DEAR ABBY: A casual friend ENJOY THE town are starting to ask me to “Doug” for four years. I feel heand neighbor started doing the Stow! only wants me here for sex. IfI books at the company where I donate to their causes, having say no, he either tries to force gotten the impression I'm hid- it or verbally abuses me. work. This means she knows ing deep pockets and have no my income, which she didn’t obligations. How do I get this TOLotTos, He tells me if I don't give him before. We live in a small town sex, I need to leave so he can to stop? I worry about getting & GREEK MONK, and are on several committees bring another woman to do the wrong reputation in this IS MOST KNOWN together outside of work, in- community. ~ IN A PICKLE IN FOR PURPORTEDLY it. He will destroy my belong- cluding a board for a local char- NEVER SEEING A ings or call me names. He says ity and the PTO for our kids’ THE SOUTH WOMAN IN HIS it’s my fault that he does that to me. I'm not sure what to school. DEAR IN A PICKLE: Finan- S2-YEAR-LONG Wa0rTAi LIZARDS Now that she knows how Lire! do here. Is it my fault? — BAD cial information is supposed to HAVE FIGURED OUT HOW TO much I make, she’s on my case be kept private, and for a book- CLONE THEMSELVES, A PROCESS SCENE IN THE MIDWEST to be “more generous in my do- KNOWN AS PARTHENOGENESIS — keeper to leak yours is unfor- nations” to these groups and EXPLAINING DEAR BAD SCENE: When a is spreading misinformation givable, unethical and perhaps WHY SO MANY boyfriend (or husband for that about my financial situation, illegal! You should have gone WHIPTAIL SPECIES matter) forces their partner to For example, when the PTO to your employer and report- ARE ALL FEMALE! have sex, it isn’t foreplay; it is fundraiser fell flat, she told the ed the woman the first time RAPE. That Doug emotionally group I could make up the dif- she hit you up for money and WHAT IS THIS abuses you or destroys your ference out of my pocket! discussed your financial status "MALE" YOU property if you refuse to ac- ‘The thingis,she doesn’t have with your neighbors. SPEAK OF PP Now that the cat is out of commodate him is not your the full picture. I donate to or- 7-19) sevngocomicacom mmsoloyncom ©2023 Ripley Entertaiment ne._Disitbutes by Anarows Melee for UFS. “fault.” (“You MADE me do it” ganizations she doesn’t know the bag, I hope you will dis- is something abusers say when about and help to support my cuss this with an attorney and they want to avoid taking re- oldest nephew, who has a dis- determine what your legal op- Crossword sponsibility for their actions.) ability and struggles to get by tions are. As to anyone who ap- What you need to do now is on his own. 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