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Activities August 20, 2022 Girlfriend Is Unimpressed By Fines —-Believe It or Not!: Man’s Longtime Friends Jue BLACK HOLE employment, high morals and absolute? We can’t both move AT THE CENTER OF THE Dear Abby better values. That you would and not move. -- YEARNING spend a year and a half sur- TO FLEE DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend rounded by a group like this DEAR YEARNING: Your hus- has been hanging out with a tells me you must be desperate band should have been honest group of “friends” since col- for company. with you from the beginning lege. He is now 41. The women about his feelings and ties to in this group are unfriendly to- DEAR ABBY: I'm a newly- ward me. They don’t say hello wed, and my husband and I the community. Because you or goodbye or even acknowl- have just hit a big roadblock. know you can't be happy there edge my existence when I am I hate the town we live in. I - and he has indicated that around them. I have talked to always have. The only reason he plans to stay ~ I think you my boyfriend about this time I'm here is because of him, but should do whatever makes you and again, and he defends their I have always been very clear happy and thank your lucky SUNLIKE STARS EAT behavior. He says I “lack empa- about wanting to move. stars there are no children in- THEIR OWN PLANETS! thy.” Ilost my job, and the market volved to complicate matters. We have been dating for a around here is terrible, which year anda half, and I realize the has pushed the idea of us mov- DEAR ABBY: I am 24 and other “friends” he surrounds ing to the forefront. I don’t being married soon. My fiance himself with are as bad or expect us to go anywhere now, 6 MILES TALL AND C worse. (They are heavy drink- but it is becoming crystal clear thinks ity, I I'm a virgin, but in real- am far from it. We have © ARIZONA, Mars OLympus Mons ers, drug dealers and drug us- that this place isn’t going to get VOLCANO rHE LARGEST MOUNTAIN IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM ers, and have low morals, poor me far. My husband is a teach- been saving sex for marriage ~ values, etc.) When I give him er, but between terms he has at least that’s what he thinks. I examples of how these people the option to leave. When we don’t knowif I should keep this treat him poorly and treat me married, it was with the under- to myself or tell him. Please rudely, he brushes it off, saying standing that we would even- give me your expert advice. -- their behavior and comments tually leave, or so I thought. BRIDE-TO-BE don’t bother him. What gives? Now he’s talking about how -- LOOKING FOR INSIGHT if I want to move, I'll be go- DEAR BRIDE-TO-BE: Solid ing without him because he’s marriages are built on trust. DEAR LOOKING: What happy here, and he’s happy to What do you think the fallout “gives” is this: Your boyfriend stay forever. will be if this man finds out he is comfortable with these peo- I feel like the rug has been has been lied to all this time? ple because he is LIKE them. If pulled out from under me, and He will never again believe he had higher self-esteem and I don’t know what to do. I love was more highly motivated, he my husband, but I love myself, what you tell him, and who Crossword wouldn't be hanging out with too. I will never be happy here. could blame him? The time to those losers. He'd form friend- T’ve tolerated it for five years, level is now, BEFORE the wed- ships with people who live and I'm miserable. 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