DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend, “Rick,” is in prison and has been there for two years. He is the father of my 2-year-old son. I got pregnant three months into our relationship. Ten days after our son was born, Rick had to turn himself in for something that happened prior to my getting pregnant. He was […]

DEAR ABBY: I have a close friend who is obsessed with selling “finds” on eBay. I often give her little items that she has mentioned she liked — or outright asked for. I always thought she wanted to keep them for herself. Recently I saw some of the things I gave her for sale under […]

DEAR ABBY: I work in a cubicle in close proximity to my co-workers. I can’t help but hear everything. A co-worker who sits next to me is driving me crazy. She spells her name wrong to customers every day, 20 times a day. She also makes seductive moans during the day. I almost want to […]

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend, “Dick,” who wears veteran hats — “Vietnam Vet,” ”Proud to Be a Marine,” etc. — that imply he was in the service. The problem is, Dick was never in any branch of the military at any time. Dick claims he’s “honoring” them by wearing the hats. But when he […]

DEAR ABBY: I’m 14 and my dad is in the military, so he’s away from home most of the time. I try to help Mom out as best I can, knowing she’s stressed with Dad gone. Whenever she gets mad at me, she calls me a “brat,” ‘’selfish” or a “jerk.” She even told me […]

DEAR ABBY: We recently learned that our son-in-law, “Mike,” was fired from his job as a community service officer with the county. He committed second-degree criminal sexual assault on two women inmates he was supervising and is now in the process of going to court. We hope he’ll be convicted and sent away so our […]

DEAR ABBY: My father passed away a year ago, after being married to “Valerie” for 14 years. After his death, she got his life insurance. She paid for his funeral and the burial. She also bought a new house and a horse within two months of losing our father. Four months later, she was dating […]

DEAR ABBY: There is a man at work I’m very attracted to. He seems to be equally attracted to me. The problem is, he has shown me two pictures of his privates that he has on his cellphone. When he did it, it wasn’t completely out of context of our conversation and our interest in […]

DEAR ABBY: “Chaplin, Conn., Reader” (Aug. 16) suggested that teachers should be sharing life lessons with children. Unfortunately, many people in our society believe it — including parents. Students come to us with ever-increasing deficits in many non-curricular areas. But it is NOT the job of public educators to teach them the importance of families, […]

DEAR ABBY: The other day at my in-laws’, my mother-in-law, father-in-law, “Bert,” and I were in their computer room. Bert has pictures of his family posted on his bulletin board and we often look at them when we’re in the room. One of the photos he posted recently I found disturbing. It was of a […]