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DEAR ABBY: For the past two years, I have been trying to conceal from my family (with modest success) that I’m asexual. I overhear conversations my parents have been having with my older siblings on the subject of dating, and I’m becoming increasingly frustrated that my experiences have been so different from theirs. I have never dated the same person twice, as three of my brothers have.
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DEAR ABBY: My sister is cheap. She’s also not good at choosing gifts for people. Often, the things she gives are worse than if she’d done nothing at all. An example: She was just here visiting and brought my 4-year-old a toy car she’d picked up at a garage sale (fine, so far), but one of the wheels was broken off. She had the wheel in her purse and said something about gluing it back on, but never did. Once she left, we tried to glue it, but it turned out the toy wasn’t fixable, and my son was very disappointed.
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…And Then What Happened?
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DEAR ABBY: I have a group of wonderful women friends I have known for decades. We get together monthly for dinner and drinks at a local restaurant. The location is generally left up to whoever has a birthday that month, and usually varies among three choices.
Read moreAccording to National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, only 23 percent of Oklahoma fourth grade students were proficient or advanced in reading in 2024. Put another way, three-out-of-four students are not proficient readers meeting grade-level expectations.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I discussed our 25th anniversary and mentioned Hawaii as a possibility. He reached out to his brother and sister-in-law for suggestions, since they have visited Hawaii twice and we never have.
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