September 20, 2025 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 • 5 Middle-Age Son Refuses To Be Honest With Parents DEAR ABBY: My son has trou- my life feels like it is at a dead end. ting out and into activities that DEAR MR. FIX-IT: There is ble telling the truth. He was get- DEAR ABBY I have wanted to go back to col- interest you will enhance your nothing wrong with being alone. ting up late, dressing for work, lege, but I often wonder if it’s even chances of meeting like-minded In fact, it can be healthy. You need leaving and coming back early. niless, where has he been getting worth it anymore. On top of that, people. You may be depressed, to break a destructive pattern that When my husband and I asked money? If it is from you and your my two best friends abandoned but you are NOT a lost cause. Of you may have established. It is im- him about having a job, he said husband, it’s time to stop. That me, and I can’t shake off my lone- course there is still hope! portant that you get over the im- he had one. When we asked him may give him an incentive to look liness. I want to be successful and pulse to rescue women who have to show us his paycheck, he fum- harder for employment. While meet new people, but I have no DEAR ABBY: I have lousy luck been unlucky in love and whose bled around on his phone, then you are at it, give him a date after idea what to do or where to go with women. I get involved with self-esteem is weak. Concentrate he confessed that he had no job. which he must have found other from here. Is there still hope? — women who are slightly broken. instead on finding someone who He said he has been at the library lodging, and stick to it. A coun- LOST CAUSE IN GEORGIA Then I fix them and think we are feels good about herself without looking for work. selor may be able to help your son DEAR LOST CAUSE: You are growing a relationship, only for your help, and you may have bet- This isn’t the first time my son with his problem telling the truth, only 29! If you think that further- them to find the next love of their ter luck. has lied to us. He agreed to coun- but it is long past time that you ing your education will enhance lives and push me into the friend seling. He is good to us and he is stopped living with it. your career opportunities, avail zone. It is leaving me disappoint- Dear Abby is written by Abigail kind, but he lies. He is in his 40s yourself of the opportunity. You ed and emotionally exhausted. I’m Van Buren, also known as Jeanne now. Help! How do we live with a DEAR ABBY: I am 29 and on are single and don’t have children a good person, capable of giving Phillips, and was founded by her liar? — CAN’T BELIEVE HIM IN the autism spectrum, and I live to support, so this is the time to and accepting love, but it appears mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact CALIFORNIA with my parents. I work a full- go for it. I’m only a stopgap. It’s making me Dear Abby at www.DearAbby. DEAR CAN’T BELIEVE: As- time job I enjoy and help my folks As to your loneliness, you are want to just be alone. Advice? — com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Ange- suming that your son isn’t pen- out financially wherever I can, but socially isolated right now. Get- MR. FIX-IT IN ILLINOIS les, CA 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield