August 10, 2024 Issue, Page 5 of 10

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2024 * 5 Wrinkle In Family Dynamics Can Be Hard To Describe DEAR ABBY: I am the moth- duce your daughter to someone guy seems like dating. To him, her when he goes out. What are er of a daughter, “Rebecca,” I DEAR ABB who hasn't met her before, say, it’s friends with benefits. Noth- your thoughts on this? — NOT placed for adoption when I was “I'd like you to meet my oldest ing will change unless the two of BUYING FOR TWO a teenager. Long story short, we me here: If the situation would daughter, Rebecca” you can have an honest conver- DEAR NOT BUYING: The have reunited. We not only have be reversed, and I would be in- sation. If his way of handling it is next time you take this friend to a wonderful relationship, but I troducing her to someone, what DEAR ABBY: I am 43, and I to head for the hills — after seven lunch, if she asks to order some- have a great relationship with do I say? There's NO term for have been talking to this guy months - then he really isn’t what thing for her husband, tell her it’s Rebecca's adoptive mom, and my our “status.” I think of her as my for seven months. We agree you're looking for. Sorry. fine with you, but his portion of husband and children (with my daughter, but most people who that we aren't dating, and we are the check will be on HER. husband) all have an open and have known me and my husband best friends with benefits. But it DEAR ABBY: I have a woman PS. Andif that’s “what partners caring relationship with her. for 30 years or so don't know I seems as though we spend all our friend I take out to lunch ev- do” for each other, it shouldn't be Fast-forward to my recent visit had a child as a teenager. time together and that we are ba- ery once in a while. I often pay a one-way street. What a manip- with Rebecca. She and I were out, I love Rebecca, who is 50 now. sically dating, but without the the check. When she goes back ulator! and we ran into a friend of hers. Why isn’t there a term to de- title. How do I get this commit- home to her husband, he’s upset She introduced me by saying, scribe who she is to me (without ment-phobe to realize we should that she didn’t bring something Dear Abby is written by Abigail “This is Sally, my birth mother.” long explanations)? I feel like be together without actually tell- back for him. He tells my friend, Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Thad no problem with it and re- this relationship needs a term, ing him? It would scare him off. “It’s what partners do.” Phillips, and was founded by her ceived a warm reception from too, — REUNITED IN LOUISI- — LACKING STATUS IN NEW Abby, these people are not mother, Pauline Phillips. Con- her friend (who, I think, did have ANA JERSEY tact Dear Abby at www.DearAb- without food or the means to get some “backstory” knowledge). DEAR REUNITED: Try this DEAR LACKING: To you, the by.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los it. 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