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Irresponsible boyfriend only earns woman’s anger

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend cheated on me the whole time I was pregnant last year. He lived in Florida, and I lived in Missouri. He didn’t make it back for our son’s birth like he promised. ...

Teen looks for clarity after mom’s mixed messages

DEAR ABBY: I’m 17. My mom and I often disagree on things. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t care what she does in her free time, but lately I have learned she’s talking to people about bisexu...

Son’s drug habit causes mother’s marriage crisis

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to a loving man for 15 years. We have been through a lot and, for the most part, have been OK. My son, “Kyle,” is the problem. I know Kyle is a li...

Parents grin and pay for man’s upscale appetite

DEAR ABBY: Our son-in-law, “Brody,” has a very different lifestyle than ours and the one in which we raised our daughter. I pointed it out to her while they were dating, and she was not ...

Dad wants appreciation for helping pay bills

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married just over a year. It’s the second marriage for both of us. Since our wedding, my father-in-law continually “reminds” us that he helped my wife ...

Wife with sketchy memory depends on husband

DEAR ABBY: When my wife was 17 (she’s now 54), she was in a car accident. She and her three friends were high and drunk. She suffered two skull fractures, which have affected her memory....

Mistress still mourns years after man’s death

DEAR ABBY: I don’t know what to do. I was having an affair with the most wonderful (married) man. I’m sure that he and I were the only ones who knew. He passed away unexpectedly a few ye...

Man ready to shop for new ‘latte’ source

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married for 17 years. For the first 16 years, my wife would make me lattes without being asked. Last year, she announced she would no longer make any m...

Friedman: Self-driving people, enabled by Airbnb

Roughly a decade ago two new “platform” companies burst out of California. The one that dominated the headlines was called Uber, which created a platform where with one touch of your phone y...

Stromberg: Trump insults everything the Boy Scouts stand for

I don’t blame the Boy Scouts of America for inviting President Donald Trump to speak at the National Scout Jamboree. But I would blame the BSA’s leaders if they ever invited him back. ...

Samuelson: How health care controls us more than we control it

WASHINGTON – If we learned anything from the bitter debate over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) – which seems doubtful – it is that we cannot discuss health care in a way that is at once...

Krauthammer: What to do for little Charlie Gard

WASHINGTON – One cannot imagine a more wrenching moral dilemma than the case of little Charlie Gard. He is a beautiful 11-month-old boy with an incurable genetic disease. It depl...