March 1, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 10

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 2025 • 5 Man Asks Girlfriend To Take Lie Detector Test DEAR ABBY: I have been dat- alert! Your boyfriend’s insecu- along. Am I right to feel exclud- — ODD GIRL OUT ing this guy for five years. Two DEAR ABBY rity is off the charts. His con- ed? I’m a woman in my late 20s, DEAR GIRL: You may be “too years ago, one of his friends trolling behavior has nothing and I feel stung when friends sensitive,” but your roommates came on to me through a text. detector test to prove I’m inno- to do with you and everything and roommates make plans to clearly aren’t sensitive enough. I told him I’m not the kind of cent. I don’t feel I should have to to do with his own insecurities. hang out without me while I’m It is rude to do what they have woman who cheats. He respect- take one when I’m doing noth- What he is doing to you is sick standing there. One close friend been doing. If I thought men- ed that and didn’t text me again. ing wrong. I literally sit in my and abusive. You will never be often reminisces to me about tioning your hurt feelings would I told my boyfriend the very house and go nowhere but the able to assuage this man’s suspi- girls’ nights and outings with help the situation, I’d advise next day, and he no longer trusts grocery store. I don’t talk to a cions. our mutual friends. It hurts, and you to do that, as well. A bet- me! Ever since then, he ques- single person. For your safety, I URGE you it has made me feel like I’m not ter course of action would be to tions what I’m doing and where I chose to do all that so he to end this romance while you part of the group. drop the issue and concentrate I am and accuses me of lying ev- would stop accusing me, but he still have enough self-esteem to When I told them how this on making NEW friends. ery time. He thinks I have slept always finds something wrong. manage it. If you are afraid for made me feel, they assured me with every one of his friends. Should I take this test to prove your safety as you do that, con- we were indeed friends and said Dear Abby is written by Ab- He tracks me. He put cameras he’s been wrong about me this tact the National Domestic Vio- I was being “too sensitive.” I val- igail Van Buren, also known up and accuses me of deleting whole time? Part of me worries lence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 ue these friends. Because they as Jeanne Phillips, and was everything. that even if I take this test, he and ask for guidance. are roommates, I can’t avoid founded by her mother, Pauline I have never cheated on him will find something else and it’s them. For the most part, they’re Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at or even thought about it. All of never gonna stop. — PRISON- DEAR ABBY: Some of my kind and conscientious. Should www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box his accusations are pushing me ER IN OHIO friends discuss their plans in I bring up my hurt feelings again 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. away. He wants me to take a lie DEAR PRISONER: Red flag front of me without inviting me or drop the issue and withdraw? CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield