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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2024 + 5 Friendship With Boss Came With Steep Emotional Toll DEAR ABBY: Fifteen years ago, gered, I accepted a position with wrong to feel otherwise? -- HESI- conversation with him without In most marriages, a degree of my partner and I moved to a newanother company, and later re- TANT IN ARIZONA politics entering the discussion. compromise can be reached. If community, befriending a neigh- tired to another state. Since then, DEAR HESITANT: When your As a result, I avoid talking to you and your husband are hav- bor whose initial kindness and he has contacted me at regular former boss asks to visit, politely him about anything, and it is ing trouble doing that, marriage generosity impressed us greatly. intervals to say he misses us as decline. If he continues to pursue straining our marriage. I also pre- counseling may help you figure When the neighbor learned I was neighbors and friends and would it, that will be the time for a frank fer to go to social events alone, out how to navigate your political unemployed, his influence en- like to visit. conversation with him. When because he brings his political differences. If you cannot do that, abled me to secure a position with While working for his com- (and if) it comes to that, express views into even the most casual then you and your husband have his company. pany financially empowered us that, although he was kind to you conversations with people we are some tough decisions to make. In a professional setting, how- to make future plans previously personally, his tirades and the fact meeting for the first time. ever, the neighbor revealed a per- beyond our means, I lack the abil- that he nearly drove a co-worker Have you any advice on how to Dear Abby is written by Abigail sonality that was manipulative, ity to prioritize gratitude over the to suicide were the reasons you address this problem? I don’t see Van Buren, also known as Jeanne condescending, _backstabbing memories of the emotional abuse left the company, which is why it getting any better after the elec- Phillips, and was founded by her and mean-spirited, often reduc- to which he subjected my co- you prefer he not visit. tions, regardless of the outcome. mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact ing colleagues to tears with his workers and me. - OPPOSITE IN HOUSTON, Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. profanity-laced tirades. His was My tenure there had a negative DEAR ABBY: My husband of 25 TEXAS com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Ange- literally a Jekyll and Hyde trans- impact on my health, and I have years and I have become political DEAR OPPOSITE: Marriages les, CA 90069. formation. opposites over the past several can fail because a couple’s diver- no desire to relive the experi- After a decade of his tyranny ence merely to nourish his ego. years. We watch different news gent beliefs about what is im- My partner suggests I can toler- networks and media. It has grown portant have driven a wedge be- and the suicide attempt of a col- league he had mercilessly bad- ate anything for a few days. Am I increasingly difficult to have any tween them that can’t be bridged. CAN You HELP $0 WN ADDITION To |Z y 1 see. CROSSWORD ME SPELLUL THE ZOMBIES, ALLIGATERS, | £ PERHAPS MY TTL OF MY | SOCIAL CRITICISM AND NEXT Book, NeW Book? 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