Opinions

TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 27 years. Most of them have been miserable. My husband has been a functioning alcoholic for more than 40 years. I consider his behavior emotionally abusive. I hate my home. My kids (22, 19 and 17) don’t want me to leave him.

Nolan Cummins Seminole, OK Op-ed in newspaper of Mar. 5, 2025 titled: Health Insurance Companies Shouldn’t Play Doctor First, my only relationship with the medical industry is as a patient and my only relationship with the medical insurance industry is as a premium payer.

DEAR ABBY: We lost our 16-year-old daughter two years ago to leukemia. It’s been a difficult two years. I am writing to ask if there are rules of etiquette for visiting a loved one at the cemetery? We go regularly.

Continuing from last time, further criticism that the ancient Roman historian Tacitus was unreliable and showed bias in favor of Christianity is based upon his use of certain words. Critic G. A.

While watching our teenaged son play four years of high school basketball games years ago, we both noticed an absolute truth; Our son could not seem to grasp that he wasn’t able to block every shot that was put up by the opposing team.

One definition of ‘Church’ is an assembly of people. So, the assemblies who were believers of Jesus Christ met and still meet in the outdoors, in homes, and in buildings.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been married for 47 years. My has suffered from mental illness for more than half our marriage. Tw years ago she went off her medication, became manic for 10 months and was hospitalized four .

WOMAN’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNIONS ALWAYS REOPEN OLD WOUNDS DEAR ABBY: This year was our high school class’s 50th reunion. My husband and I graduated together from the same school. We have attended every reunion, and at each one of them received the same reactions from classmates.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I’m a gay man living in a predominantly straight community. About a year ago, a married couple moved in. One day, the husband asked me to come over and help him put a table together, which I did. He thanked me by opening a bottle of wine.

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2025 DEAR ABBY: I have been seeing a hairstylist for a decade. During the last couple of years, I don’t feel I’ve gotten the service I deserve. I go in for a trim about every two months (sometimes longer to save money).