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ACTIVITIES The Elk City News SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2026 • 5 Long-Suffering Wife and Mother Is Ready To Move On DEAR ABBY: I am living in total DEAR SITUATION: Talk to a law- website I was browsing one day. She NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH dysfunction with my daughter (32) DEAR ABBY yer! Have you done so? Your assump- is being charged with multiple felony DEAR MAY: What have you to and husband (75). I am retired and tion that your pension isn’t safe may counts of child neglect. I knew she gain by contacting this woman and going on 76. My daughter will not around 8. He then sits in the drive- not be true, and a good attorney may didn’t have custody of her kids prior telling her you know the situation? work and is controlling my life. She way to avoid her. I have been aban- be able to help protect it. to finding the article, but she never The story has been all over the media, has OCD and refuses medication. It’s doned to deal with her. Additionally, I urge you to call the mentioned to me what was really go- and she likely assumes that everyone so bad that she has become completely Abby, I taught school for 40 years, National Domestic Violence Hotline ing on. This woman has been like a knows about it. If, in light of your dependent on me. She makes me drive raised three kids and did all the work at 1-800-799-7233 right away. Even sister to me for years. long relationship, you feel you would her and yells at me while I do. If she around here while he worked a cushy though no one has been physically I’m torn about how to feel. I have like to be supportive, then reach out doesn’t get her way, she yells and calls job for his parents. I also found on his violent, you are still a victim of emo- yet to tell her I know the true situa- to her. However, if you’re merely cu- me horrible names. The police have phone that he has a girlfriend. I am so tional (and possibly financial) abuse. tion. We haven’t spoken since I found rious, then listen to your gut and step been called to the house in the past, upset living with him that I want out No one should have to live under the out. Do I reach out and ask for her out of the picture. but it only made things worse for me. of this house and away from him. conditions you have described. side of things? The article laid out She has been accepted to a college I daydream of getting my own that the neglect had been occurring Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van with a partial scholarship for her sec- apartment and living alone. If I file DEAR ABBY: I recently found for years. I feel awful that I never Buren, also known as Jeanne Phil- ond master’s degree and wants me to for divorce, my husband will go after out that the state removed all of my knew how bad it truly was for her lips, and was founded by her mother, fund her housing. Her father, who my pension. He has no retirement good friend’s children and placed kids. Part of me wants to ask what is Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby is also verbally abusive, leaves home savings and still works. What can I them into protective custody. I got going on; another part wants to dis- at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box before she gets up and comes home do? -- UGLY SITUATION this information from a local news connect from her forever. -- MAY 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. CROSSWORD Get Fuzzy CURRENT PUZZLE ANSWERS Drabble Dailies Pearls Before Swine Garfield