January 18, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 10

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025 * 5 New Boyfriend Is Still Someone Else’s Husband DEAR ABBY: I have started me. Once, when I confront- been doing is unacceptable. whether your husband is rude seeing someone I've known DEAR ABBY ed him about it, the response for indulging his yen for sug- for years. On our first date, was: “Aren’t you talking about DEAR ABBY: My husband ar than is it healthy for him. he told me he had tried mul- OK? — CHALLENGED IN me with other people?” I have has a terrible habit. He loves How’s his weight? His blood tiple times to divorce his ex of UTAH never said a bad thing about to order dessert first and asks sugar levels? Any diabetes many years. He said they live DEAR CHALLENGED: You him to anyone. Am I creating that it be served to him after in the family? What does his in different states, and each seem pretty clear about the ca- a circle of hate around myself? the waitstaff takes everyone's doctor think about it? time he’s tried, something has sualness ofthis relationship. If — CIRCLED IN MINNESOTA order. Last night, we were at a While ordering dessert be- gone awry. it’s OK with you, OK with him DEAR CIRCL No, you birthday party with 15 adults fore dinner and again after- I'm about to start nursing and OK with wife No. 3, then are not. If your partner has in a restaurant and he did it ward is unusual, I’m not sure school, and what I want is a it’s OK with me. OK? a complaint about you, he again. it is rude. It may, however, be relationship of convenience should discuss it with you They served a wonderful a bid for attention. to work around my schedule. DEAR ABBY: I live with a rather than the people with cake for dessert, which he en- We've talked about dating wonderful partner. We share whom you socialize. The ex- joyed at the end ofthe meal, as Dear Abby is written by Ab- each other exclusively, but we the duties of building a beau- pression “circle of hate” seems well as his pie at the beginning igail Van Buren, also known agreed it won't lead to mar- tiful life around us. However, extreme, but your “wonder- when no one else was hav- as Jeanne Phillips, and was riage because he’s on his third our mutual friends seem to ful” partner painting you in a ing anything but drinks. He founded by her mother, Pau- and currently doesn’t have the praise my partner, but not me. I negative light hardly enhances says it wasn't rude, but I dis- line Phillips. Contact Dear funds to hire a lawyer to get wonderif this may be my fault. your image, and it should be agree. Please, what say you? — Abby at www.DearAbby.com out of it. I’m seeing him as a I always say good things about stopped. That won’t happen BACKWARDS IN IOWA or P.O. 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