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Activities May 20, 2023 The Elk City News - 5 Childhood Trauma Resurfaces GIPLEY’s Believe It or Not! For New Mom | CHAMPION I feel so much guilt, anger band and I paid the down pay- Dear Abby and shame giving away or sell- ment on, but lost it by mak- Leticia Buront A GRIND ON A PIPE THAT L ing clothes I don't want, like ing the ownership joint with HER OUT OF AN AIRPLANE DEAR ABBY: Throughout I'm being “bad.” Despite ther- my childhood, my mother was apy, my childhood trauma per- her abusive second husband. AT AN AL: EOF controlling in many ways. One sists. How can I ask my moth- She no longer receives child 9,022 ceet! of them was my clothes. She er to stop buying unwanted support because her children dressed me in ridiculous out- “gifts”? - BAD KID FOR LIFE are grown, so her finances are fits that I found humiliating. worse than ever. We bought If| expressed an opinion about DEAR BAD KID: Do not ASK her a car last year because she anything, I was treated as be- your mother to stop buying had no transportation. ing “bad.” It affected my men- clothing for your son -- TELL My question is this: How tal health, which resulted in her. While you're at it, tell her much should we continue to me hating the way Ilook. I went through multiple eat- what you have been doing with financially support her? We are EXTREME IRONING them, AND WHY. Then, if she IS A SPORT IN WHICH PEOPLE ing disorders and addiction, well-off, but where should our doesn’t already know, explain TAKE IRONING BOARDS TO and I had plastic surgery 15 exactly how the way she raised obligation end for a daughter REMOTE LOCATIONS AND years ago. After many years of you affected you. To do that who continues to make bad IRON WRINKLED therapy, I am now doing bet- isn’t being “bad”; it is hon- decisions? -- PUT-UPON MOM. CLOTHES. ter emotionally. I also endured est and long overdue. If she IN GEORGIA many years of heart-shattering persists after that, feel free to infertility, but I am finally a donate the clothes, because an- DEAR MOM: As parents ofa mother, working hard to give other child might be thrilled to 50-year-old daughter, you and my child a better life than I have them. had. your husband are likely in your My mother continues buy- DEAR ABBY: My50-year-old 70s. You have two choices. If Saranece TAILOR ing clothes for my child, and daughter divorced her hus- you wish to continue enabling NosutaKka Sapa SuMMITED receiving these “gifts” fills me band 15 years ago because she your daughter, she will receive MrT, KINABALU, MALAysiA's. with rage. My son is too young thought she could do better. whatever is left of your estate, TALLEST PEAK, WHILE to pick out his own clothes, From what I could see, he was a so she shouldn’t be homeless but I know what he likes and good husband. 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