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Dinner unexpectedly comes with show

DEAR ABBY: I’m an active senior man. To keep my beard looking attractive, a hairstylist trims it every two weeks. I’ve had the same stylist for three years, and we have become good friends, ...

DATE: Dec 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Remarried dad’s behavior makes daughter cringe

DEAR ABBY: My parents were married for 50 years. My Dad remarried a nice lady a year after Mom died. Within two months of meeting her, they were engaged. Dad made more than a few missteps, i...

DATE: Dec 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Man sees ‘signs’ amid heartache

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 55-year-old man who dated a very special lady, “Dawn,” for 12 years. We were both married when we met. I fell in love with her, and after we divorced our spouses, we continu...

DATE: Dec 19, 2025 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

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