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Page 0B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, February 24, 2015 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Seldom-seen wife spends more time with mom than husband FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE Dear Abby: I have been married sons other than her mother’s health to “Carla” for 16 years. It’s my sec- for Carla’s spending so much time ond marriage. My problem is I never away. see her. She has always spent more Nothing will change until you get time with her mother than with me. to the bottom of it, so don’t let your We see each other for about an hour a wife’s tears prevent you. And if your day after she returns from her mom’s, wife resists seeing a counselor, go usually at 9:45 to 10 p.m. without her. I have had several conversations Dear Abby: My husband and I Jeanne about this with her over the years, Phillips recently quit our jobs and moved to but nothing seems to work. We’ll ar- London from New York. Being a Advice gue and she starts to cry, and it ends freelancer and having lived here be- without a resolution. Her mother is in IRUH KH¶V QHYHU KDG WURXEOH ¿QGLQJ her mid-80s and has had her share of health work. But I have just changed careers, and problems. ,¶P¿QGLQJLWKDUGWRHDUQDFRQVLVWHQWSD\- Carla has a sister who could help out, but check here. rarely does. I have had health problems of my Despite his constant assurances that he is own — a kidney transplant and several bouts happy supporting both of us right now, I can’t of skin cancer — but she doesn’t seem to care shake feeling guilty. I have never felt right as much about my problems as she does her living on someone else’s dime — not even mom’s. Her mother even tells her to go home my parents’ while I was growing up. Should to be with me, to no avail. ,PDQXSDQG¿QGDMRE,GRQ¶WH[DFWO\ORYH I love my wife, but my isolation and lone- to better contribute, or “keep on truckin’” OLQHVV DUH ¿QDOO\ JHWWLQJ WR PH +RZ FDQ , without guilt with hopes of getting there? — convince her that this isn’t fair to me or our Guilty In London marriage? How much longer do I take it? — Dear Guilty: Because of your history, I’m Lonely In Illinois not sure you are capable of happily “keepin’ Dear Lonely: I feel sorry for both of you. RQWUXFNLQ¶´ZLWKRXWFRQWULEXWLQJ¿QDQFLDOO\ Your wife may be trying so hard to be a re- For some people, the sense of independence sponsible daughter that she has forgotten you they derive from having a job is important to need her, too. Your sister-in-law should have their self-worth. stepped up and started doing her share long I say, look around and see if there are some ago — and she still may if you and your wife job openings. It’s better than sitting around talk to her about it together. moping and feeling guilty, and it might give I don’t know what your schedule is like, you and your husband a chance to make some but you might have more time with Carla if new friends. you went with her to your mother-in-law’s Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Bu- occasionally. It might also improve your ren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was communication if the two of you went for founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. marriage counseling. If Carla’s mother has to Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com insist she go home to you, there may be rea- or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069. DAYS GONE BY 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 23-24, 1915 George Fletcher, well known buckaroo, was found guilty on a charge of selling liquor to John Nash-ne, an Indian. This afternoon about 2:30 the jury brought in the verdict. The prin- cipal witness against Fletcher was Alf Oftedal, special federal agent who made the arrest. He WHVWL¿HGWKDWKHFRQFHDOHGKLPVHOILQWKHORIW at the Beck & Hall barn on Cottonwood street about 11 o’clock on the morning of January 23 and that about 2:15 Fletcher rode in and, after some conversation with several Indians, hand- ed a bottle of alcohol to Nash-ne. Oftedal de- clared he, thereupon, appeared from his hiding place, arrested both Fletcher and Nash-ne and took charge of the alcohol. Some of the other Indians were also put upon the stand to give corroborative evidence. The defense entered a general denial of the transactions and tried to impeach the state’s witnesses. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 23-24, 1965 Things were back to normal at Helen Mc- Cune Junior High this morning following a bomb threat that emptied the school Monday afternoon. Kathleen Salling, who received Monday’s telephoned warning, said absen- teeism was below normal today. Less than ten PLQXWHVDIWHUWKHXQLGHQWL¿HGFDOOHUSLFNHGXS his phone, the 600 pupils were outside and on their way home. Emptying the building took OHVVWKDQ¿YHPLQXWHV3ULQFLSDO:D\QH6FRWW said. A force of 17 lawmen — city and state police and sheriff’s deputies — searched the building, looking for “anything unusual,” a state policeman said. The policemen poked into lockers, drawers, closets, every nook and cranny of the big brick building. They found nothing. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 23-24, 1990 A little more than two years after their KRPHZDVUDLGHGDWJXQSRLQWEHFDXVHRI¿FHUV mistook an ordinary house plant for marijua- QDD\RXQJ3LORW5RFNFRXSOHDUHVXLQJWKH police agencies involved. David and Annette Hoeft say the Feb. 9, 1988, incident violated their constitutional rights. 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