May 28, 2022 Issue, Page 7 of 24

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Activities May 28, 2022 Woman constantly revisits Rines—-Believe It or Not/- past decisions in her mind aa. )z°3 eteereie! (BARELY) “conversations” with deceased Dear Abby parents, divorced husbands, which is why apps have been that their relationships suffer, Bue eimet ELECTRIC CARIN THE old loves, etc. A technique that created that make the addicted U.S. vesutep aroun [890 IN DEAR ABBY: I'm a divorced might help you would be to get Des Moines, lowa, AND HAD A more aware of how much time woman, soon to be 60, who is up and move from wherever Tor ePeeD or ZO wu, often haunted by vivid memo- you are when those flashbacks is spent on them. Using the ries of the past. I constantly re- happen to a new location. “focus” and “do not disturb” call times in my life thatI regret Take a 30-minute walk in the features can also be helpful. or cringe about, and things I sunshine and smell the roses. I suggest that your wife start wish I would have handled bet- Count your blessings. And say ter. They range from being em- ALOUD to yourself, “That was using one of them before your marriage deteriorates further. barrassed at my 7th birthday THEN. This is NOW.” It is not party to being bullied from the possible to think of two things 5th through 8th grades to awk- at once. Please try it. It’s cheap- DEAR ABBY: While driv- ward moments in high school er than yet another therapist, ing our car to a babysitting to parenting decisions I wish and it works. gig, our teenage daughter was Td made differently. PS. You are not a “prisoner” ‘These memories play over of your unhappy past; you asked by the parents to stop at and over like videos in my CONQUERED it. Congratula- a pizza place and pick up lunch 2S mind, causing me to feel the tions. for their child. While pulling Wurousout HIS LIFE, emotions again and again. I've been through therapy three DEAR ABBY: I recently mar- into the restaurant's parking garage, she hit a post, which GEORGE WASHINGTON ny 2007, «Russian WORE MULTIPLE SETS OF DENTURES times in three cities over the ried a younger lady and want to caused significant damage to COCKROACH v MADE FROM A VARIETY OF MATERIALS past 24 years. One therapist know the best way to get her to — INCLUDING IVORY, GOLD, even used eye movement de- put her phone down, because the bumper. Should she tell the _ Narvezupa E BIRTH TO LEAD, AND HUMAN TEETH — sensitization and reprocessing she’s texting about 10 hours parents with any expectation BS SABy COCKROACHES, | BUT NEVER WOOD, (EMDR), all to no avail. I knowa day. She works from home that they should offer to pay 2 WHICH THE Ican’t go back and change any now, and if she isn’t working, for some of the repair or is this = FIRST CREATURES poor choices or bad decisions, she’s texting. I feel like I can’t all on her? -- WORK-RELATED EVER CONCEIVED IN but how can I stop tortur- compete, and I'm not sure IN THE WEST ing myself over them? Also, what to do about it. Please DEAR WORK-RELATED: would you say it's normal for help. - FIGHTING ABOUT people my age to have such THE PHONE I'm sorry, but your daughter vivid memories of what others should not expect the parents might have let go of decades to pay for her fender bender. DEAR FIGHTING: Tell your ago? - PRISONER OF THE wife you feel like you are in She can certainly tell them PAST competition with her cell- what happened -- if she hasn't Crossword phone, and you don’t like com- DEAR PRISONER: People ing out second best. Many already — but with NO expecta- of every age have been known people become so caught up tion that they will help her pay ACROSS to revisit the past. 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