September 13, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025 • 5 Man’s Flirting With Others Finally Had A Consequence DEAR ABBY: I have read let- that hold great meaning about the DEAR ABBY: I get really an- ters in your column from women DEAR ABBY DEAR ABBY: As a baby boomer lives of their predecessors. Do you noyed with “friends” who call me whose boyfriends or husbands flirt and an amateur genealogist, I am have any suggestions about how I only on their speakerphones when with other women in their presence makes me feel I am the most im- continually frustrated by the lack can encourage their interest in this driving, or while shopping or run- complaining about feeling hurt and portant person in his life. My advice of interest my grandchildren’s gen- important area? -- HISTORIAN IN ning errands in stores. I don’t do embarrassment. I was married for to those women is: Pack up, run as eration seems to have in learning TEXAS this to them. It makes me feel like 25 years to a man who flirted with fast as you can and don’t look back. about their family history -- partic- DEAR HISTORIAN: You prob- an afterthought. What should I other women while we were dating -- FOUND MY SELF-ESTEEM ularly mine. Rather than ask about ably CAN’T do that unless they tell them? -- UNCALLED FOR IN and also after we were married. I DEAR FOUND: Some people what life was like when I grew up wake up when they are older and COLORADO told him many times that it hurt need constant reassurance that in the 1950s and ‘60s, they seem start asking you to record oral DEAR UNCALLED FOR: Try my feelings and made me feel in- they are attractive, which is why fixated on their own lives and show family histories. However, because this: Tell them to call you when adequate. His response was I was they feel compelled to flirt. Their little interest in anyone or anything you would like these stories passed they get home and are not distract- “too sensitive” and that I should get insecurity is a bottomless pit. This else. down, start writing them in diaries ed. over it. is destructive when it affects part- When I was their age, I was mes- and journals to be read at a later Fast-forward 20 years: I GOT ners and spouses. I’m glad you fi- merized by stories my grandpar- date, perhaps after you are gone. If Dear Abby is written by Abigail over it! Then I walked out and filed nally realized that the problem ents shared with me about their your family isn’t interested in them, Van Buren, also known as Jeanne for divorce. My grown daughter wasn’t you and found the strength lives at the turn of the 20th cen- local or state historical societies Phillips, and was founded by her told me he cried like a baby when to leave. You deserve your happy tury. I’m deeply concerned that may be VERY interested in having mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact he realized I was gone. I have now ending, and I know you make your my grandkids will never be able them, along with any photographs Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com been married for many years to current husband as happy as he to pass down these stories that I’d you might be willing to share. or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA a man who loves me deeply and makes you. love to share with them -- stories 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield