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TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2025 DEARABBY: I have been married for 22 years. It was a normal relationship, and I was very happy. However, over the last 12 years, my wife has changed. There is ZERO affection, no hugging, holding hands and nothing sexual. We are like roommates.

SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been divorced from my ex-husband, “Cliff,” for a year and a half. My nearly adult children live with me. They rarely see their dad.

This time of year, many are traveling to garden centers, to buy plants and potting items--hoping to refresh homes, backyards, lawns, and front porches--also refreshes our well-being with promises of a better tomorrow.

When the world is hot and my skin is fried, scratching from the constant dry, let the clouds boil up, boil up high. And then shade the earth with the darkening sky and bring the secrets and the smell of rain. The coolness and the blessed rain, again.

I can vividly imagine the reactions of most who just read that title. “Are you nuts, Renie B?! Of course, being rich would be better for me than having to drive this old rattletrap of a car, that breaks down every time a wind any stronger than a baby’s breath blows through.

FRIDAY, MAY 30, 2025 DEAR ABBY: A man I know has been married for 40 years. His wife gets mad at him for small things and stops talking to him for three to four months at a time. Also, he will make her supper, and she’ll make something else.

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2025 DEAR ABBY: We have an annual weekend family reunion that includes family and significant others along with their children. Most of the children are adults now.

DEAR ABBY: I am recently divorced after a 37-year marriage. My boyfriend, “Grant,” has been divorced for a long time. He is a lovely man -- honest, intelligent, healthy, helpful, neat and a great communicator. Our physical relationship is wonderful, too. My problem?

TAHLEQUAH - Seven Seminole County youths arrived here Saturday to join 775 other Oklahoma high school seniors in the week-long Boys State, sponsored by the American Legion of Oklahoma. The Boys Staters got an official welcome Saturday night from Tahlequah mayor John Purdy.

It’s been nearly three years since country music legend Vince Gill last made a tour stop in his home state of Oklahoma, but odds are his return this week will be worth the wait for his fans. Earlier this month, fresh off a lengthy Las Vegas residency with The Eagles, Gill embarked on a U.S.