March 22, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2025 • 5 Friend’s Paranoid Behavior Raises Alarm DEAR ABBY: How do I tell my don’t know how to help. Please senior citizen (age 90). People tween the ages of 20 and 30. friend I feel she needs a mental DEAR ABBY advise. -- TRAINWRECK IN sometimes think I’m in my early This would make the woman health evaluation? She has been ARIZONA 60s because I look and act it. I to whom you are attracted be- my closest friend for 20 years, lieves his ex-wife flirts with him DEAR TRAINWRECK: From have been widowed three times tween 59 and 69. I see no reason and we have been through many and he is probably cheating with your description of your friend’s by women younger than I. for you to “back off ” or obscure trials together. She has been her, although they have been di- paranoid and irrational behav- I recently met a woman I’m your age. Because the two of you married for a couple of years to vorced for 20 years. She resents ior, she appears to be sick. Be- very attracted to. I think the have a lot in common, enjoy a man who seems very nice. his contact with his grandkids cause neither you nor I are qual- feeling may be mutual. We have the relationship. (If she’s brave Abby, she is convinced that and his family because of it. I ified to diagnose what has gone a lot in common. The first time enough to be with you after you she’s being followed, but doesn’t should add that her mother was wrong with her, she needs to be we talked on the phone, the con- have killed off three younger know by whom or why. She tells diagnosed with early-onset Alz- evaluated by a doctor. It would versation lasted more than three women, more power to her!) me about terrible arguments heimer’s at around her age. It’s not be betraying her to discuss hours. Last evening, I learned she has with her husband be- heartbreaking to watch. I have this with her beleaguered hus- while talking on the phone Dear Abby is written by Ab- cause she thinks he orchestrat- mentioned it numerous times, band, who may be at a loss about with her that I’m older than her igail Van Buren, also known ed situations in public places. as well as suggesting she speak to how to deal with her behavior. mother by one year. Would you as Jeanne Phillips, and was For instance, she claims he seats a pastor (she thinks the church Rather than a betrayal, seeing advise me to “back off ”? -- JUST founded by her mother, Pauline himself in a position to look at may be in on it) or a therapist, that she gets help would be a A NUMBER IN COLORADO Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at other women. The poor man is but she tends to dodge it. If I tremendous favor. DEAR JUST A NUMBER: If www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box blind in one eye and has limited try to contact her husband, she this woman’s mother is 89, she 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. vision in the other. She also be- will start to think I’m a traitor. I DEAR ABBY: I am a “young” probably had her daughter be- CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield