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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, March 20, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Love is lost in good marriage as abuse increases with time FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE BEETLE BAILEY BY MORT WALKER GARFIELD BLONDIE Dear Abby: I have been married org — and let them help you form 14 years and have two children. The a safe escape plan. It is not normal first three years of marriage were for a man to treat a woman the way great. We both cared for and respected your husband has. He is unlikely to each other. As our children grew change, and you need to look out for older and our jobs have become more yourself and the children. demanding, my husband has changed Dear Abby: My wife is in her about how he views our sex life. 30s. She’s a beautiful woman and a After our third year of marriage, wonderful mother to our three chil- Jeanne my husband started raping me. No Phillips dren, and my soul mate. We’ve been one knows this except an ex-sis- married 10 years. She has many qual- Advice ter-in-law. ities I love and admire, but also one At first, I didn’t understand what that causes me serious concern: her was really happening. He was forceful and slouchy posture. She slouched a little when wouldn’t take no for an answer. I went along we married, but her posture has worsened with it at first, thinking I wasn’t giving him dramatically since then. enough attention and was doing the “wifely We have spent thousands of dollars on duty.” But over the years it has become worse personal trainers, massage and chiropractic. — ripping my clothing off and holding me When we (infrequently) quarrel, she down. unconsciously slouches more, which drives I have told him it’s not OK, but if I speak me crazy. She’s willing to see professional up, it leads to a fight. He says I don’t show medical practitioners, but is unwilling to him I care for him and we don’t have sex accept any responsibility for it. I can’t enough, so this is his way of getting it. bring it up without her getting bristly and Abby, I have lost respect for the man defensive, but it’s getting worse every year. I married. I no longer want to be intimate It’s also taking a toll on our relationship. I’d with him, because he doesn’t respect me or appreciate any advice you could share. — my body. The only reason I have stayed this Desperate For Straight Talk long is for my children. Is there hope in him Dear Desperate: If your wife’s posture changing? — Sleeping On The Couch is the only thing about her that causes you Dear Sleeping On The Couch: Ripping “serious concern,” you are a lucky man. a spouse’s clothing off and holding her (or Believe me when I tell you I have been told him) down is not foreplay; it is spousal rape far worse. and a form of domestic abuse. It is a crime Correcting one’s posture takes constant in all 50 states. The level of hostility in your vigilance and determination. It’s not easy, home isn’t healthy for you or your children, and not everyone is able to manage it. who may grow up thinking it is normal. Slouching is a defensive posture, and if Because your husband may become she slouches even more when you raise the violent if you tell him the marriage is over, subject, it may have something to do with the contact RAINN — (800) 656-4673; rainn. way you’re doing it. DAYS GONE BY BY JIM DAVIS 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 19-20, 1918 Other communities who have been exploiting the fact that they have men who are knitting their bit have nothing on Pendleton. At least seven Pendleton men have qualified as expert knitters and have actually turned in finished work for the Red Cross. D.B. Snyder heads the list, having four sweaters to his credit. J.H. Smith is second with three, J.H. Gault and George Plagman have each knitted two and E.J. King, A.M. Winn and F.E. King have each completed one. All of these men are working on other sweaters now. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 19-20, 1968 USAF Capt. Donald D. Sams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Sams, Hermiston, has received five awards of the Air Medal at Sheppard AFB, Texas, for air action in Southeast Asia. He is a helicopter pilot and was stationed at Da Nang. He now holds 15 Air Medals. On one occasion, the captain flew an emergency medical evacuation of several critically injured Marines although the helicopter came under intense fire. He is now assigned to Sheppard AFB as an instructor. He is a 1958 graduate of Hermiston High School. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 19-20, 1993 Six-year-old Martha Hogue was kicking rocks in the dirt road on her way up the North Hill to Thelma DeYoung’s house when she came upon a colorful beaded leather bag. That was more than 80 years ago. This week, the 88-year-old Pendleton native — Martha Donaldson — gave the bag back to the Indians. It is among the first artifacts accepted by the Confederated Tribes for the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, which is planned as part of a tribal development project east of Pendleton. “I wanted the bag where it belongs. It belongs in the hands of the Indians, and I was pleased when I found out they would have a museum, a place for that bag to be,” Mrs. Donaldson said this week. BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 79th day of 2018. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 12:15 p.m. Eastern time. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 20, 1854, the Republican Party of the United States was founded by slavery opponents at a school- house in Ripon, Wisconsin. On this date: In 1413, England’s King Henry IV died; he was succeeded by Henry V. In 1760, a 10-hour fire erupted in Boston, destroying 349 buildings and burning 10 ships, but claiming no lives. In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule. In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential novel about slavery, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” was first published in book form after being serialized. In 1922, the decom- missioned USS Jupiter, converted into the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, was re-commissioned as the USS Langley. In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur, having evacuated the Philippines at the order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, told reporters in Terowie, Australia: “I came out of Bataan, and I shall return.” In 1948, “Gentleman’s Agreement” won the Academy Award for best picture of 1947; Ronald Colman was named best actor for “A Double Life,” while Loretta Young won best actress for “The Farmer’s Daughter.” In 1952, the U.S. Senate ratified, 66-10, a Security Treaty with Japan. In 1969, John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. In 1977, voters in Paris chose former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac to be the French capital’s first mayor in more than a century. In 1985, Libby Riddles of Teller, Alaska, became the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race. In 1995, in Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the deadly chemical sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shin- rikyo cult members. Today’s Birthdays: Singer Dame Vera Lynn is 101. Producer-director-co- median Carl Reiner is 96. Actor Hal Linden is 87. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Pat Riley is 73. Hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Orr is 70. Blues singer-musician Marcia Ball is 69. Actor William Hurt is 68. Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 67. Movie director Spike Lee is 61. Actress Theresa Russell is 61. Actress Holly Hunter is 60. Actress-mod- el-designer Kathy Ireland is 55. Actor Michael Rapaport is 48. Actor Michael Cassidy is 35. Actress-singer Christy Carlson Romano is 34. Thought for Today: “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” — Robin Williams, American comedian (1951-2014). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE