6- The Elk City News Activities June 15, 2022 Loney widow mulls offer from Qne's—-Believe It or Not! younger acquaintance Q@e-ten ACCOMPANIED BY HALLUCINATIONS, SLEE? PARALYSIS she wants to babysit a 1-year- means making other arrange- IS A STATE DURING Dear Abby old boy in our family by her- ments for a babysitter, so be it. i. WHICH YOU ARE AWARE OF WHAT. self. Rebecca’s husband is legal- IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU, BU" DEAR ABBY: My husband ly blind, closets himself in his CANNOT PHYSICALLY move! DEAR ABBY: I recently re- died recently. I have been ap- home office all day and ignores ceived a text from my nephew eA proached by a much younger everything around him. asking that I cosign on a loan man for a sexual relationship. Although my sister is confi- for a car. Abby, I am estranged I want to, but I feel he is too dent she could take care of the young. I'm 61, and he’s 37, the baby, the boy’s parents and Iare from this person. I have met same age as my son. We have not comfortable with the idea. him only a handful of times, been friends for years, and I Rebecca often runs into things and I haven't seen him in years. am unsure if I should change in her own house, can’t find I was, as you can imagine, put the relationship. I see no fu- something she has dropped off by his request. : Bounper w2005, ture in it except occasionalsex. — and sometimes even has dif- I responded that I couldn’t tue GLoup Appreciation Should I drop it or consider ficulty understanding what is cosign because it would make SOCIETY uas over the possibilities? - THINKING going on around her. me legally responsible for the 50,000 wengers across ABOUT IT IN OHIO When we mention these debt. My entitled nephew's {ZO countries! problems or the fact that the response was dead silence, not DEAR THINKING: Before baby is fast and rambunctious, an “I understand,” not an “OK, dropping it, carefully consider (> #2072 ploy Entortainment nc. www.gocomles.com she gets angry and teary-eyed sorry.” Nothing! I never heard the “possibilities.” At 37, this and won't listen to reason. from him again. Am I wrong person is not a kid, he’s an How can we help her to under- for feeling offended that he ip HE YOUNGEST adult. Something like this hap- stand we can’t leave the baby asked? -- TOO SMART FOR COLLEGE GRADUATE IN pened in my family years ago. alone with her? —- OUT OF THAT US. History Is A dose friend of a relative’s THE QUESTION 4 i Micase. Keaguey, son announced he had fallen WHO RECEIVED A DEAR TOO SMART: Stop in love with her. It took her a DEAR OUT: You have al- wasting your time preoccupy- BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN little while to adjust her think- ready tried to get through to ANTHROPOLOGY FROM ing, but the result was a very someone who refuses to ac- ing yourself with thoughts of THE UNIVERSITY OF happy marriage. cept reality. There is no reason this relative. He likely asked OUTH ALABAMA IN you to cosign because no one 1994 at sust why Rebecca can’t “assist” in DEAR ABBY: My sister “Re- babysitting the child, but she else in the family would. His 19; (0 years oLp. becca” is in her early 40s and should not attempt to do it attitude was, “Nothing ven- has been blind for more than alone. It’s important that you tured, nothing gained.” You did Crossword 20 years. She has low self-es- and the child’s parents stick the right thing to refuse to be teem and gets depressed when to your guns. Do what is best used. There is no need to dwell ACROSS she can't do things. Right now for the little one. 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