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Husband pressures wife to dress more provocatively

DEAR ABBY: My husband wants me to wear more revealing clothing. I’ve always enjoyed dressing attractively, and have never felt behind the times or like a frump, but I do have my opinion abou...

DATE: Mar 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Husband gives spouse unthinkable ultimatum

DEAR ABBY: My husband has a poor relationship with our son and his wife. They want nothing to do with him and don’t want him around the grandchildren because of how he acts. My husband tells...

DATE: Mar 5, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

In-laws exclude spouses from family text chain

DEAR ABBY: I recently married and was excited to be part of my husband’s family. My own siblings and I are not particularly close. During COVID-19, one of my husband’s sisters started a fami...

DATE: Mar 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Relatives can’t stomach another visit

DEAR ABBY: We have grown children and a grandchild who live several states away. The problem is, we don’t enjoy visiting them. Our son’s wife has an eating disorder. She’s obsessed with what...

DATE: Feb 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Medical condition leads to marriage’s breakup

DEAR ABBY: I suffered an injury that caused internal bleeding, which then gave me iron deficiency anemia. I was battling its symptoms of depression and anxiety before I was diagnosed. Never ...

DATE: Feb 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Man weighs revealing health status

DEAR ABBY: I am a gay man who came out late in life. I have three grown, married children and five grandchildren. They are my world, and we are all very close. I’ve had one partner. My famil...

DATE: Feb 21, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Parents refuse to keep boy under control

DEAR ABBY: I host holiday meals for my out-of-town family. During the last one, my cousin’s 5-year-old son ran up and down the upstairs hallway pretty much nonstop the entire time. The floor...

DATE: Feb 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Efforts to connect are met by silence

DEAR ABBY: I am engaged to an amazing guy. We have been together a little more than two years. During our first year, his family was great to me. They acted as if they liked me. However, thi...

DATE: Feb 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Mother can’t understand why son walked away

DEAR ABBY: I’ve always been close to my children, but now that they are adults, it seems I’m losing my connection with one of them. He married a girl of a different race, and while that does...

DATE: Feb 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Straight women trying to ‘flip’ gay man

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 41-year-old gay man. Although I was raised in a conservative, religious family, I’m out of the closet and proud to be living as myself. For much of my adult life, I have att...

DATE: Feb 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Mom puts a crimp in relationship

DEAR ABBY: I love my fiance, but his mother says, “Over my dead body will he move away from me.” She has cancer and we have both been praying that she goes peacefully, but it seems all she w...

DATE: Feb 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Affair threatens woman’s mental health

DEAR ABBY: I have been involved with a married man for the last five years. He lied to me about his status. He told me that a woman he’d had a 15-year relationship with had left him. I recen...

DATE: Feb 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby