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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2024 + 5 Marriage Hits Rough Patch Amid A Major Transition DEAR ABBY: My husband and I go away. Please help. -- MYSTI- years, she has been a nightmare. you have sacrificed your personal have been together 20 years, mar- DEAR ABBY FIED IN NORTH CAROLINA I'm a single mom of three chil- time to be her chauffeur. Explain ried for 12. We have weathered DEAR MYSTIFIED: I’m not dren and I work A LOT. On week- that you need time for yourself and ex-spouses, step-parenting, nine I don't know why this is happen- sure your husband is “an infinitely ends, I'd like to rest and try to have can only visit her once a month. military deployments between us, ing now. No one else makes me better person” than you are. I wish a social life, but my mother wants Do not expect her to like serious health issues and everyday feel this way. you had mentioned one thing that me to come nearly every Saturday it, but you MUST take time for normal life. My husband is an in- I don’t know where to start on he does to make YOU feel loved to take her out and visit with the yourself to unwind and have a so- finitely better person than I am, addressing the problem. I have and needed, because from whereI kids. She lives 45 minutes away cial life. Advise her that there may and I have always tried to care for told my husbanda little bit, and he sit, you have been shouldering the and it’s an all-day endeavor. be a senior center near her that him. We are in our early 40s and says he feels like I no longer love entire load. Your anger and resent- Tam going crazy. I have no so- provides the transportation she recently retired. him or need him. But, Abby, I do ment may stem from your awak- cial life, and I'd like to get remar- needs for activities. Then stand This year, our children will be everything for him. I manage all ening to this fact. Those feelings ried one day. Would it be selfish your ground. out of the house, and we have our bills and finances. I cook three may dissipate if you discuss them to visit only once a month? I need bought a beautiful home in a meals a day. I clean the house, the with a marriage and family thera- to focus more on myself and my Dear Abby is written by Abigail dream location for the two of us to yard and the cars. I do everything pist, preferably in the presence of needs. I don’t know what to do or Van Buren, also known as Jeanne start our next adventure together. he asks for if he needs help or as- your husband. what to suggest for my mother to Phillips, and was founded by her I love my husband, but over the sistance. I try to always be there if do in my absence. -- NO LIFE IN mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact last few years, almost everything he needs to talk or vent. I stay in DEAR ABBY: I am 49. I grew up Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com SOUTH CAROLINA he says makes me extremely angry in a toxic, abusive household. My shape and available for him. I don't DEAR NO LIFE: Remind your or P.O, Box 69440, Los Angeles, or annoyed. I have never felt like mother can’t drive. She’s broke and mother that you work hard all CA 90069. know what else to do to make him this before in our relationship, and feel loved and to make my anger needs me. Up until the last few week and during the last few years “His? |? |CALCULATOR, CROSSWORD MC NeW | 2 |SATCHEL. WATCH. | WATCH. (T'S. 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