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January 24, 2024 Activi ‘The Elk City News - 5 Wife In Unhappy Marriage Fantasizes About A Friend Pracue MUNICIPAL Lisrary, and family therapist would be promises (which IS disrespect- THE ART PIECE "IDIOM" By Dear Abby the place to start. Do it NOW. ful). His voyeurism is the least Mati ES KReN is DEAR ABBY: I am an un- of your worries. MADE OF DEAR ABBY: I am with happily married woman with someone who drinks and 8,000 Books! young children. I am attracted gambles and has made count- DEAR ABBY: I went out toa friend of mine and my hus- less promises that have been to eat at a fancy Manhattan band’s, but he is also married. broken. I recently checked restaurant with some of my He's a bit older, and I can’t tell his Facebook account, and he for sure if he has feelings for follows at least 12 women in siblings. One of them over-or- me, but sometimes I suspect their 20s, most of whom he dered and ran up a huge bill. it. He has made me jewelry barely knows or doesn’t know When it came time to pay, he and gifts, and I've caught him at all. Most of them are almost said, “Let’s charge it to Dad- looking at me a few times. naked in every picture, dy’s credit card.” Our father MATHEA ALLANSMITH OF We have exchanged mes- I told him it bothers me, but is well-off and probably would sages on social media and he he doesn’t seem to care. I told Kotoa, HAWAII, ComPLeTEeD often asks me questions about him it is disrespectful to me have been OK with it, but I ob- THE HONOLULU MARATHON myself -- what I like, etc. He’s as his significant other, I have jected on principle. AT Ace 9B! just so quiet that I can’t tell if also told him to think about We ended up splitting the it all means anything. I could the things he does that affect bill, which irritated me since CASTARO. never leave my husband and our relationship. To him, he’s my wife and I ordered much break up my family, and I doing nothing wrong; to me, less. I can’t talk to them about Bercww's could never break up someone he’s disrespecting me, and it’s Ceu Ne CORNET HAS A else’s family. But I'm start- not the only time, He has writ- it because they'll accuse me of COLLet CTION OF MORE THAN ing to wonder and sometimes ten to a few of them telling being cheap. What should I $F Z22ZOO Panpa-RELATeD think I really am falling in love them how beautiful they are. have done and what should I ITEMS, WHICH SHE with him. What should I do? Am I wrong? — AT A LOSS IN do in the future when it crops STAR TED INIDTS Arter -- CRUSHING IN THE MID- FLORIDA up, because it will? - MON- HER HUSBAND, ANDRE, WEST GIFTED HER A TOY PANDA EY-CONSCIOUS IN NEW DEAR AT A LOSS: Your gen- FROM ITALY. DEAR CRUSHING: Face it: tleman friend may be a voyeur YORK y Andrews MeMeal for UFS. ww.gocomics.com wwuripleys.com © 2024 Ripley Entertainment inc. 1-24 You're TAKEN. 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