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Babysitting brings marriage to brink

DEAR ABBY: My wife and I stopped having sexual relations eight years ago. She keeps our two grandchildren 11 to 12 hours a day, five (and sometimes six) days a week. (That’s 60 to 70 hours.)...

DATE: Dec 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Effort to be good grandfather fails

DEAR ABBY: Ten years ago, I connected with “Christi,” a daughter I fathered with a woman I was in a relationship with for a short time decades ago. We split before Christi was born. My ex-gi...

DATE: Dec 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Family’s collective mental health declining

DEAR ABBY: As my parents have aged, my father has been misremembering things or making wrong assumptions. It has increasingly gotten on my mom’s nerves (she has also become more impatient an...

DATE: Dec 12, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Too late to leave narcissist?

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married to a narcissist for 28 years. He has gaslighted me for our entire 30 years together. He has had a “work wife” and a flirtation with the next-door neighbor hottie...

DATE: Dec 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Teacher has message for parents

DEAR ABBY: I am a teacher. I love my job, and I love my students. However, as I near the end of my 26th year of teaching, there’s something I need to get off my chest. At the end of every sc...

DATE: Dec 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Wife still communicates with ex best friend

DEAR ABBY: My best friend of more than 10 years, “Ian,” ghosted me. We used to talk about everything – wives, children, jobs. We spent hours together and helped each other sort out our probl...

DATE: Dec 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Unwelcome advances may threaten friendship

DEAR ABBY: I’m struggling with my integrity and an important friendship. My friend “Beth’s” husband, “Jerry,” came to my house to help with a construction project. After discussing the proje...

DATE: Dec 3, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Sparks fly when ex returns

DEAR ABBY: My son is 27. He has had some problems recently that were so serious I reached out to his father. His father and I were teenagers when we had him, so the last time we spoke was 18...

DATE: Nov 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Man wonders why he’s stayed in marriage

DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 38 years. We have three adult children and four grandchildren. I have always wondered whether I have stayed in the marriage out of obligation and/or becaus...

DATE: Nov 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Son invites rapist father to wedding

DEAR ABBY: My child “Logan” is the product of a sexual assault. He has located his father and formed a relationship with him. Logan didn’t know the circumstances of his conception at the tim...

DATE: Nov 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Boyfriend has nursed grudge for six years

DEAR ABBY: My daughter is asking me to apologize to her boyfriend, “Harry,” for yelling at him when I was helping them move six years ago. (I had traveled 250 miles to help.) The day of the ...

DATE: Nov 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Noble gesture puts father in dicey situation

DEAR ABBY: My 19-year-old niece didn’t finish high school and has been in and out of rehab for years. She’s about to leave a residential program and is looking for a place to live. Her paren...

DATE: Nov 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby