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Dear Abby: Man resorts to hiding snacks when hungry family drops in FacebookTwitterEmail A man hides his food and drinks from visiting relatives.Peter Cade/Getty Images DEAR ABBY: My wife’s family drops by our home several times a week, usually unannounced. I don’t mind them dropping in, but what does bother me is they bring their kids and expect us to feed them during the visits. It has gotten to the point that I hide our snacks and beverages in the bedroom because if I leave them in the c...

Dear Abby: Girlfriend shares matching rings with married man FacebookTwitterEmail A woman wants to end a loveless marriage.LaylaBird/Getty Images DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married more than 40 years, but we have lived separately in a house and guesthouse on jointly owned property for the last 10. We split bills and communicate only when necessary via text. I am somewhat afraid of him and try to distance myself from him and his friends and family. He has been involved with multiple w...

Dear Abby: Man questions relationship with older woman FacebookTwitterEmail A younger man is wondering how seriously to take a relationship with an older woman.Morsa Images/Getty Images DEAR ABBY: I am a 25-year-old man currently dating a 39-year-old woman. We have been dating for 2½ months. We have talked about our age difference a couple of times, but apart from that issue, every other aspect of our relationship is going well, including communication, intimacy and maturity. We are not super...

Dear Abby: Planned retirement changes future for disabled brother FacebookTwitterEmail A woman is wondering how to take care of her disabled brother.Juanmonino/Getty Images DEAR ABBY: I’m a 65-year-old woman with a younger brother who is 63 and physically, mentally and emotionally disabled. He’s deaf, reads at a fourth-grade level and can do math only at a second-grade level. He has paranoia, and because of that, he can’t work with other people. He receives disability payments, but they a...

Dear Abby: Trainer turns womans head, and husband starts to notice FacebookTwitterEmail A woman is wondering about her relationship with a personal trainer.poba/Getty Images DEAR ABBY: I have grown really close to “Pete,” my trainer at the gym I joined two years ago. We are both married. I know it’s wrong to feel this way. I love my husband, but I’m not sure I am “in love” with him anymore. I think what I feel for Pete may be more than just a physical attraction and connection. Our ...

Dear Abby: Trash-talking couple banned from daughter-in-laws house FacebookTwitterEmail Meddling in-laws are causing problems in a couples marriage.KatarzynaBialasiewicz/Getty Images/iStockphoto DEAR ABBY: I have meddling in-laws. Anytime my husband of 20 years and I have a disagreement, he calls his parents to complain about me. On six different occasions, I found messages and Facebook chats between my husband and my in-laws in which they called me a bad mother, a terrible person, crazy, evil,...

Dear Abby: After-hours texting keeps retiree up at night FacebookTwitterEmail A man cant get a good nights sleep.monkeybusinessimages/Getty Images/iStockphoto DEAR ABBY: My wife and I are both recently retired. Our 19-year-old daughter lives 100 miles away at college. My wife has an elderly mother. My problem is family and friends who text early in the morning. When I was working, I had to get up at 4:30 a.m., so one of the biggest rewards of retirement is no alarm clock. My wife keeps her cell...

Dear Abby: Happy host declines help in the kitchen with a poem Jeanne Phillips, as Abigail Van Buren March 17, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail DEAR ABBY: I have seen letters in your column from people upset that their guests dont help them after dinner. I am the opposite. I held onto a poem you printed years ago and had it perma-plaqued and posted on a kitchen cabinet. For more than 20 years, my husband and I hosted a dinner every Sunday after church. I set the table for 10, but we often had more. ...

Dear Abby: Daily chats end when friend is blocked without warning FacebookTwitterEmail A woman misses her daily chats from her car.Maskot/Getty Images/Maskot DEAR ABBY: I had a friend I would talk to every day while I was doing my deliveries for work. We had anywhere between six and 25 conversations a day. For months it was never an issue. All of a sudden, I got blocked on her social media, and her boyfriend (my husband’s good friend) sent me a message telling me to leave her alone! I felt bl...

Dear Abby: Grateful mom honors life of young sons benefactor FacebookTwitterEmail A mother wants to thank Bill, who helped out her son.Tony Anderson/Getty Images DEAR ABBY: On Sept. 14, 2017, you printed my letter about my ex-husband “borrowing” money from my 13-year-old son’s piggy bank. Soon after, you reached out to tell me a gentleman (the founder of an organization that helps people who have been wronged) wanted to send my son twice the amount of money that had been taken from him. M...