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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, February 13, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Wife loses lust for husband, but wants to save marriage FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: My husband and I Dear Abby: I’m not attracted to my husband. I love him and don’t moved to a new town last year and want to live without him, but I do not are working on settling in and making want to be physically intimate with friends. Our way has been to accept him. I know it is unfair to him, and every invitation offered in hopes of I have tried everything from antide- building relationships in this small pressants to meditation to diet, but community. nothing works. We recently had dinner at the I used to have a high libido, but I home of a neighbor couple who were Jeanne haven’t wanted to have sex with him Phillips very welcoming, but we quickly in years. We do it maybe two or three realized the four of us have abso- Advice times a month because I force myself lutely nothing in common. Making to, but it is unpleasant for me. He conversation through the meal and doesn’t want to guilt me into sex and hates coffee taxed all of our small-talk skills, and that I force myself, but he has a very high there were many painful silences. Any foray libido. into current events, family life — even We are in our mid-20s and I know this is gardening — revealed stark differences that killing him — and us. I am attracted to some brought conversation to a screeching halt. We (but very few) others — just not to him. I made an excuse to go home early and sent a have always been more emotionally attracted thank-you note the next day. to women than men, but I don’t think that is Usually, I think a dinner invitation it. I need help before our marriage starts to requires a reciprocal invitation in the future. crumble. — Avoiding It In South Carolina In this case, I’m wondering if it would be Dear Avoiding It: I can’t wave a magic better to just let it go. Would it be rude to not wand and make you more physically attracted reciprocate, or must I suck it up? If we must to your husband. I can suggest that the most have them over, how do I ensure the second sensitive sexual organ in a woman’s body dinner goes better than the first? We hope to resides between her ears. live here for a long time. — Different In The However, I am not qualified to diagnose West whether your problem may be of a physical Dear Different: Do the right thing and nature. That’s why I’m advising you to ask invite the couple for dinner. It does not have your doctor to perform a thorough physical to be in your home — a nice restaurant would examination. If he or she finds nothing amiss, do. If the evening was as uncomfortable as ask the doctor — or your health insurance you have described, they may not accept company — to refer you to a licensed mental your invitation. But if they do, a way to make health professional who can help you figure conversation flow more easily might be to out what’s going on. include another couple. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 12-13, 1918 Indians of the reservation will not be encouraged to form separate military units for service against the kaiser, according to infor- mation received this morning from Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian affairs. He thinks it highly advisable that the Indians should take their place, shoulder to shoulder with their white comrades. “I want the Indian to go into this conflict,” he says, “as the equal and comrade of every man who assails autocracy and ancient might, and to come home with a new light in his face and a clearer conception of the democracy in which he may participate and prosper.” 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 12-13, 1968 Three cars were stolen and one was recovered the last 24 hours, according to city police. State police informed them a car was stolen from Adams and that another was missing from the longhouse at Mission last night. They also said a car stolen sometime Friday from Louis Jenkins was recovered abandoned in a ditch on a market road east of Pendleton. Raymond Martin Shade reported to city police today his pickup was stolen from in front of his house between 9:30 p.m. and 6 this morning. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian Feb. 12-13, 1993 When he started running 15 years ago it was to get in shape for pick-up basketball games. Alan Beck has been running ever since, and racing since 1979. Last week Beck, 46, won a national title when he finished first in the 45-49 age group at the USA Track and Field (formerly The Athletic Congress) cross country championships in Sandy. He finished in 17 minutes, 17 seconds over the 5-kilometer (3.1 mile) course. Beck, who is on the board of the Oregon Association of USA Track and Field, was running on an Oregon team, which finished second. “I was really happy. I hadn’t been racing for a while because of the weather,” Beck said. THIS DAY IN HISTORY BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 44th day of 2018. There are 321 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Feb. 13, 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition, accused of defending Copernican theory that the Earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. (Galileo was found vehemently suspect of heresy, and ended up being sentenced to a form of house arrest.) On this date: In 1542, the fifth wife of England’s King Henry VIII, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery. In 1741, Andrew Bradford of Pennsylvania published the first American magazine. “The American Magazine, or A Monthly View of the Political State of the British Colonies” lasted three issues. In 1861, Abraham Lincoln was officially declared winner of the 1860 presiden- tial election as electors cast their ballots. In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, also known as ASCAP, was founded in New York. In 1933, the Warsaw Convention, governing airlines’ liability for interna- tional carriage of persons, luggage and goods, went into effect. In 1935, a jury in Flem- ington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Haupt- mann was later executed.) In 1943, during World War II, the U.S. Marine Corps Women’s Reserve was officially established. In 1968, actress Mae Marsh, known mostly for her silent film work (“The Birth of a Nation”; “Intolerance”), died in Hermosa Beach, California, at age 73. In 1974, Nobel Prize-win- ning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Union. In 1998, Dr. David Satcher was sworn in as the 16th Surgeon General of the United States during an Oval Office ceremony. Today’s Birthdays: U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager (ret.) is 95. Actress Kim Novak is 85. Actor George Segal is 84. Actor Bo Svenson is 77. Actress Carol Lynley is 76. Singer-musician Peter Tork (The Monkees) is 76. Actress Stockard Channing is 74. Talk show host Jerry Springer is 74. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is 72. Singer Peter Gabriel is 68. Actor David Naughton is 67. Rock musician Peter Hook is 62. Singer Henry Rollins is 57. Rock singer Matt Berninger (The National) is 47. Rock musician Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down) is 46. Singer-songwriter Feist is 42. Actress Mena Suvari (is 39. Rock musician Dash Hutton (Haim) is 33. Michael Joseph Jackson Jr. (also known as Prince Michael Jackson I) is 21. Thought for Today: “To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.” — Theodore H. White, American political writer (1915-1986). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE
