Couple’s difference in age causes girl’s family to worry
Dear Abby: I’m 17 and dating this older guy. Everyone is afraid that one day I’ll just disappear, but he isn’t like that. I know him from when I was younger, and my dad and his dad were really close. People just don’t trust me, even though I have told them nothing but the full truth from the start. I’m happy. What should I do? — Misunderstood In
Massachusetts
Dear Misunderstood: It might help if you ask this young man to talk to your parents about his interest in you. If he is nice, respectful and employed or in school, they may be less suspicious about his intentions.
Dear Abby: My cousin was hard up and DEAR ABBY
needed a place to stay because where she was wasn’t a good place for her. I told her she could stay with us, there was no need for her to pay rent because everything was already covered, and to just help with groceries. Well, she has been here a while now and she not only hasn’t pitched in, but also helps herself to our car since she doesn’t have one.
You tend to have the best advice. Please tell me what to do, because I’m not sure. — Family First? In Indiana
Dear F. F.: Have a talk with your cousin and repeat the agreement you had with her before she moved in. Then tell her that if she doesn’t start living up to it, she will have to make other living arrangements.
P. S. If you don’t want her using your car, don’t let her have the keys. Frank and Ernest Born Loser Peanuts Garfield Snuffy Smith Beetle Bailey Blondie Mike Du Jour Conceptis Sudoku Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Sunday.