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Activities 6 - The Elk City News November 19, 2022 Husband Handed Out Hugs To Qiney's_—-Believe It or Not’ All Women Except Wife Ow (91l, RavIocHEMIST FAN LEN Georce ve Hevesy SPIKED HIS OWN FOOD it seems abit late. It may take a WITH RADIOACTIVE Dear Abby therapist to help work through DEAR ABBY: I'm writing MATERIAL TO PROVE HIS your justified hurt and anger to ask your advice about how LANDLADY WAS BULKING DEAR ABBY: My strongest over this. My advice is to start to tell my friends we should “love language” is physical now. not exchange Christmas gifts UP HIS MEALS WITH touch. For 23 years, my hus- this year. We are all retirees. LEFTOVERS. band gave hugs galore to any DEAR ABBY: My husband I'm not cheap, and neither are and every woman, but never to died suddenly three months they, but none of us “needs” me. The word “never” is not anago. My family sympathizes anything. I suspect many of exaggeration. He has recently with me; however, my young- us want to say it, but we don’t begun to change and try to be est daughter thinks I need know how. I don’t want to better. Now he does hug me as to move on and get over his hurt anyone's feelings. Sugges- much as I want. But when he death. How can I make her tions? -- HALTING HOLIDAY Wue PEAK OF hugs other women, it still feels understand that his death GIFT-GIVING Mount Everest like a knife through my heart. has devastated me, and get- He says the hugs mean noth- ting over it will take time? She DEAR HALTING: I assume IS MADE OF MARINE you see or communicate with ing to him, but I question why, if they were so insignificant, he reads tarot cards and claims these friends regularly. Raise LIMESTONE. the cards are telling me to get couldn't give me even one for over it and move on. How can this subject during one of your visits well before the Christ- more than two decades? How I get her to stop with the card mas holiday. Many retirees are do I get over feeling hurt when readings? -- HEARTBROKEN trying to divest themselves of he hugs other women? Is there IN SOUTH CAROLINA the “things” they have accumu- something wrong with my per- lated during their lifetime, and spective on this? I’m not sure DEAR HEARTBROKEN: your friends may feel similarly. if I'm being too sensitive. -- FI- Your daughter may be trying to Do not feel shy about bringing NALLY WORTH HUGGING be helpful. She may also be un- it up. They may be as relieved eZ py donarvan comfortable seeing her mother as you about exchanging only ‘Wuayva, West Jakarta, DEAR FINALLY: Too sensi- in pain. Clearly, she has no clue cards and good wishes. ‘wvonesia. tive? There is nothing wrong about how grief works. There CAN USE THEIR WESBED FEET TO GLIDE MORE with your “perspective.” For 23 is no timetable for it, but three Dear Abby is written by Abi- years your passive-aggressive months is a relatively short pe- gail Van Buren, also known THAN SO FEET THROUGH THE AIR! husband chose to withhold riod of time. Tell her that for as Jeanne Phillips, and was Distributed by Andrews McMeel for UFS. wanw.gacomicecom_wnmsipleye.com ©2022 Ripley Entertainment inc. 11-19) a gesture of affection you re- the foreseeable future those founded by her mother, Pau- quested, while showering other card readings will no longer be line Phillips. Contact Dear Crossw women with it. It’s “nice” that a subject of discussion. Then, if Abby at www.DearAbby.com or he’s finally willing to make the she brings it up again, change P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, effort to hug you but, frankly, the subject. CA 90069. 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