DEAR ABBY: My brother’s 8-year-old son by accident fell on my canine, who reacted and snapped at him, leaving a small puncture mark on his arm.
We instantly eliminated the canine and apologized to my nephew, who was riddled with guilt as a result of he knew he triggered it. As a result of it was an accident, I advised my nephew it was OK.
Weeks later, my sister and I spotted that my brother hasn’t responded to any of our each day textual content messages or Fb posts. Once we see him in particular person, he’s superb. He jokes with us and has been planning to hire a storage unit with us for our grandparents’ stuff. However then he ignores our textual content messages.
We advised our mom he has been ignoring us for fairly a while. She stated he admitted to her that he’s super-annoyed with the entire household for not coaching our canine to not react when he will get hit.
I now really feel my brother’s purposefully dangerous habits is worse than the accident. What do you assume?
— SIS WHO WANTS HARMONY
DEAR SIS: What occurred to your nephew was an accident. Your brother’s habits is passive-aggressive and infantile.
I believe it is best to ignore it and give up texting him and commenting on his Fb posts for some time. A protracted whereas. Don’t you?
DEAR ABBY: My stepdaughter “Annie” gave my husband a photograph album of his life for his eightieth birthday.
The album included photos of his dad and mom and grandparents in addition to images from his first marriage, to Annie’s mom. She included one image of their marriage ceremony and two extra of them posing as a loving couple.
She included few photos of me, regardless that her dad and I’ve been married for greater than 40 of his 80 years. {A photograph} from our marriage ceremony was not included.
I like Annie. We get alongside properly, and I’m very damage that she included these two photos of the “loving couple.” I really feel it was inappropriate for an album she expects to be displayed in our residence for household, associates and neighbors to see.
I wish to ask her to reprint the album with out these two photos. Am I being unreasonable?
— STEPMOM IN THE SOUTH
DEAR STEPMOM: As a result of you will have relationship with Annie, clarify to her that you just felt slighted whenever you noticed the album, and why.
Clarify that you prefer to to have the ability to prominently show it IF she would please both have it reprinted with the addition of a few images of you and your husband collectively, or with solely the marriage image of her dad and mom. This shouldn’t be tough to do.
DEAR ABBY: I’m a divorced lady who has just lately determined to leap again into the relationship pool.
5 years in the past, I used to be identified with a number of myeloma. I’m in therapy and doing properly. When and the way would I inform somebody I’m seeing that I’ve most cancers?
— READY IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR READY: The time to disclose your medical analysis could be when the connection turns into romantic. It could be dishonest to withhold that data from somebody who’s investing emotionally in you.
Expensive Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also referred to as Jeanne Phillips, and was based by her mom, Pauline Phillips. Contact Expensive Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Field 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
