DEAR ABBY: I bought a used car with a navigation system last week and noticed that the previous owner’s information was still embedded in the system. Abby, I had that man’s home address, the addresses of his friends, his bank, his workplace — every place he had gone. Please inform your readers that if they […]

DEAR ABBY: This is a time when high school seniors visit prospective colleges. Could you please convey the following suggestions to them? 1. Wear comfortable shoes. You will be doing an awful lot of walking. 2. Come prepared for the weather. Twelve hundred people attended a recruiting session today, and at least one-fourth of them […]

DEAR ABBY: My sister “Carole’s” husband died a year ago, and her oldest daughter passed away four months later. Carole now has her daughter’s two oldest children, ages 10 and 14.  Carole has been going out with men she meets on the Internet, drinking and partying on weekends and neglecting the kids. The 10-year-old had […]

DEAR ABBY: We are seniors like “Thinking About Adopting in Las Vegas” (Feb. 2), who wants to adopt a dog. He may find it difficult to adopt one, especially since big hearts and lots of love and patience many times aren’t considered “enough” today. We were denied every dog we wanted to adopt until a […]

DEAR ABBY: My brother is 9 and still walks around naked. I have asked “Josh” repeatedly to put on some clothes, but he blows me off and flaunts himself around the house.  My mother is no help. When I ask her to talk to him, she laughs and says, “Boys will be boys.” Abby, I’m […]

DEAR ABBY: I’m a 58-year-old woman who has been married 40 years. I married at 18, put my husband through school and raised three children.  We have now been separated five years, after I found out that my husband had had numerous affairs. The last one lasted three years and I had no idea. During […]

DEAR ABBY: I am at my wits’ end and feel my life is over. I just want to get my life back the way it was 10 years ago. In the past eight years I have lost two jobs. I am currently unemployed and in financial ruin. I see no way out.Every job I apply […]

DEAR ABBY: My mother just turned 80, and her driving is getting bad. I have spoken to her about my concerns, and she says she’ll “think about” stopping. Then the next day, she’s off driving somewhere. I live 25 miles away. I offered to move to her apartment complex and do her driving, but until […]

DEAR ABBY: I broke up with my girlfriend of almost two years last July because I thought I was going to be getting a job overseas and she would be staying in the States. We have always had a long-distance relationship (me being from New York and she from New Hampshire), and it didn’t look […]

DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Hugh,” and I have been married 16 years. We generally have a good relationship, with few arguments. We seldom participate in activities that don’t include each other.  Three years ago, I was hired to work in the office of a manufacturing facility. The majority of the workers are men. Although Hugh […]