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Dear Abby: Years of abuse have required a lifetime of recovery
Dear Abby: I see a psychiatrist and psychologist for generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder and borderline ...
Dear Abby: I’m drowning in my mother-in-law’s unwanted gifts
Everytime my husband visits my mother-in-law, he brings home bags of junk his mom gives him. I end up taking everything to a ...
Dear Abby: My own kids tell me I need to ‘get over’ my bad childhood. It doesn’t work like that.
DEAR ABBY: My father-in-law passed away, and I have never been particularly close to my mother-in-law. I have encouraged my ...
Dear Abby: I can’t just get over a lifetime of abuse by my mother even though she died
DEAR ABBY: My father-in-law passed away, and I have never been particularly close to my mother-in-law. I have encouraged my ...
Dear Abby: How do I ask my husband to stop bringing junk from his mom?
Dear Abby: I see a psychiatrist and psychologist for generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder, and borderline ...
Dear Abby: I can’t just ‘get over’ years of abuse
After years of hatred and abuse, I believed the only family I had were my own two children, but even they are cold to me now.
Dear Abby: Family is clueless about abuse effects
Dear Abby: I see a psychiatrist and psychologist for generalized anxiety disorder, major depression disorder and borderline ...
Dear Abby: My stepmother buys inappropriate clothes for my 5-year-old daughter
DEAR ABBY: My father’s wife, “Carole,” loves to thrift-shop. She enjoys hunting for a good deal, particularly if she can find ...
Dear Abby: My family physically and sexually abused me for years — and are now telling me to get over it
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Dear Abby: Please tell your mother I don’t need any of the stuff she buys at auction!
When my husband brings this stuff home, I end up taking everything to our local donation center. How do I get him to stand up to his mother and tell her we don’t need any more stuff? I don’t want to ...
Dear Abby: Every time my husband visits his mother, he comes home with bags of stuff we don’t need
DEAR DUMPED ON: No. Tell your husband HE must run to the donation center to dispose of the items his mother sends home with him. Once he tires of doing it, HE will discourage his well-meaning mother.