July 26, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 10

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2025 • 5 Squabbling Parents Share Too Much Information DEAR ABBY: My parents got suspect that your father was less my health (“Are you going to also well enough to be told that into an argument because my DEAR ABBY upset about the arrival of that die? My mother had a cough you don’t appreciate her com- father saw my mother looking 45-year-old photo than he is like that, and she died”). I am ments. You don’t have to jump at an old photo of herself from cert. He denied it, and she didn’t about the fact that your mother struggling to control my anger when she was younger. (It had get upset. no longer has romantic feelings at her presumptuousness and down her throat, but do tell her been sent by her cousin via She told me later she doesn’t for him. I also think you should holding myself back from some that if they don’t stop, she will text.) In it, she was sitting next regret receiving the picture be- stay out of this and no longer very apt and mean comebacks. I be seeing less of you. When her to “an ex-boyfriend or friend.” cause she no longer has roman- allow yourself to be put in the don’t seem to be able to let this Alzheimer’s worsens, you may My father thought it was disre- tic feelings for my father. You middle, which is what your par- go. I don’t want to abandon her have to repeat it or redirect the spectful, but my mother didn’t see, my parents are not legally ents are trying to do. during this time (I took care of married; they are just room- conversation away from you. agree. my husband with dementia for Mom thought it was trivial for mates splitting the bills together. DEAR ABBY: An old friend 17 years), but at the same time, I him to get upset since she was I don’t know how to feel about of 50 years has recently been di- don’t need to spend weeks spin- Dear Abby is written by Abigail only 18 or 19 and the photo was this. I don’t want to be involved, agnosed with early Alzheimer’s. ning after her insensitive and Van Buren, also known as Jeanne taken 45 years ago. It was way but they both have come to me She’s still conducting her life as cruel comments. Any ideas? — Phillips, and was founded by her before my mother had even met separately expressing their feel- usual, driving and taking care of INSULTED IN SAN FRANCIS- mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact my father. Later, she mentioned ings about it. What are your her banking, etc. However, she CO to Dad that she remembered thoughts? — IN THE MIDDLE has lost her filter and talks to me DEAR INSULTED: If your Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. seeing an old picture of him and IN TEXAS about my figure (“Your thighs friend is still well enough to com or P.O. Box 69440, Los An- his ex-wife dressed up for a con- DEAR IN THE MIDDLE: I are shockingly thin”), and also “conduct her life as usual,” she is geles, CA 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield