May 1, 2026 Issue, Page 5 of 12

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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026 • 5 Political Posts Could End Longtime Friendship DEAR ABBY: I am a 38-year-old DEAR ABBY: I am hosting a off base? — CROWDED HOST IN BY THE PHONE IN COLORADO woman with no kids, a loving part- DEAR ABBY dinner at a restaurant to celebrate ARIZONA DEAR SITTING: Call your chil- ner and puppy. I run a business my my wife’s birthday. There will be DEAR HOST: You are not off dren as often as you wish. If they Would it be wrong to end this dad originally built. I’m at a high 16 guests, all family members. base. Erin has a lot of gall to think are busy and can’t talk long, they friendship, since our adult views point in my life despite the trage- Our daughter “Erin,” to whom it’s she can dictate who can drag will probably tell you. However, if no longer align? — SPLIT DECI- dy of losing my mom. I realize my hard to say no, has just asked if our someone along to someone else’s between the calls you are just sit- SION IN NEW JERSEY friendships are important going grandson can bring his girlfriend. celebration, and then throw a fit ting and waiting for the phone to DEAR SPLIT DECISION: forward in life. While it appears they are in a seri- if the answer is no. Stick to your ring, I urge you to start involving When your longtime friend posts One woman I’ve known since these items on social media, she’s ous relationship, no one else at the guns and don’t allow yourself to be yourself in activities that bring you childhood posts harsh, opinion- not posting them only to you. celebration has ever met the girl. intimidated. pleasure and stimulate your mind. ated political things on her social She’s sharing them with all of her A few years ago, Erin did some- If you do, your conversations will media. I don’t agree with them. I friends, many of whom may be thing similar. She asked on Christ- DEAR ABBY: After your chil- be livelier. don’t mind that she holds that po- like-minded. Rather than end mas Day if her son could bring a dren become adults, who should litical view as long as I don’t have the relationship, either scroll past friend to what was a family dinner initiate phone calls? I usually wait Dear Abby is written by Abigail to see it, but I’d prefer she left it out her postings, mute them or block of 12 in our home. We apologized for my kids to do it because they Van Buren, also known as Jeanne of our friendship. them entirely. However, if she and said it wouldn’t work out. Erin have busier lives than I do and I Phillips, and was founded by her My social media contains only brings these views up when you’re then refused to come to dinner don’t want to bother them. But this mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact family photos and photos of my together, ask her to keep politics with her family of five. She was can mean I don’t talk with my chil- Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com dog’s antics. I choose not to post out of the discussion. furious for weeks. I feel requests dren for weeks at a time. Should or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA things that might cause division. like this are inappropriate. Am I I be the one calling? — SITTING 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield