Expensive ABBY: I am on hydrocodone for my again suffering, and my wife keeps getting my medication due to the fact she claims her back again hurts. I have threatened to go away her, transform her in to the police and tell our little ones. She quits stealing the meds for a when and then commences up yet again. What can I do? Really should I flip her in to the law enforcement or what? — IN Discomfort IN INDIANA
Expensive IN Ache: Do not switch your wife in to the law enforcement. Take regulate of your medicines and preserve them somewhere she cannot pilfer them until eventually you no longer have to have them. Inform your doctor that your wife has been stealing your discomfort meds and appears to have produced an dependancy. If she has not now, she really should have a doctor diagnose and take care of her back again suffering individually from yours.
** ** **
Pricey ABBY: An adopted family members member tragically shed a shut member of her organic loved ones a while ago. Her grief has been intense, and she proceeds to air it on social media. The relaxation of us have been drenched in her tears extended enough. She desires to get on with her daily life, which consists of a spouse, two little ones and an adoptive relatives that has beloved and supported her by her time of grief. What would be a variety and tactful way to permit her know she has overstayed her time on the pity potty? — Enough Already IN MONTANA
Dear Adequate Currently: NO! Be sure to really do not do that. Every person grieves otherwise. Some recover rapidly others hardly ever get around their loss. Mainly because you can no extended cope with the poor woman’s grief, give up reading through her posts. The most beneficial point you could offer her would be to recommend she check with her medical professional or her non secular adviser about the different grief help groups in her area.
** ** **
Dear ABBY: When I met my boyfriend a number of years in the past, he experienced a lengthy mohawk just about reaching his shoulders. He likes possessing long hair, and frankly, it fits him. Having said that, for the duration of the final pair of yrs he has taken the pandemic as license to let it mature as long as it can get. His hair now reaches more than midway down his again.
The challenge is that my grandmother lately handed away. She was a devout Catholic, and I’m apprehensive my boyfriend’s hair will not be suitable for the funeral. I really do not want to harm his thoughts, but the believed of him on the lookout so unruly at the services definitely bothers me. I’m imagining about asking him to lower it to collar duration, but I never want to overstep due to the fact it is his hair. Must I say anything or let it go? — GROOMED IN THE EAST
Expensive GROOMED: Do not ask your boyfriend to lower a foot off his hair for the funeral. Propose as a substitute that he dress in it slicked back into a ponytail or a guy bun. I have viewed young men likewise coiffed, and it appears to be like fantastic.
** ** **
Dear Abby is published by Abigail Van Buren, also acknowledged as Jeanne Phillips, and was started by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Make contact with Pricey Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
** ** **
To get “How to Generate Letters for All Occasions,” send out your title and mailing tackle, as well as check out or money get for $8 (U.S. resources) to: Expensive Abby — Letter Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and delivery and handling are incorporated in the rate.)
COPYRIGHT 2022 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
1130 Walnut, Kansas Town, MO 64106 816-581-7500