DEAR ABBY: My brother’s 8-year-old son by chance fell on my canine, who reacted and snapped at him, leaving a small puncture mark on his arm.
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We instantly eliminated the canine and apologized to my nephew, who was riddled with guilt as a result of he knew he induced 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 every 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 unhealthy 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 you need to ignore it and give up texting him and commenting on his Fb posts for some time. An extended 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 footage of his dad and mom and grandparents in addition to photographs from his first marriage, to Annie’s mom. She included one image of their wedding ceremony and two extra of them posing as a loving couple.
She included few footage of me, despite the fact that her dad and I’ve been married for greater than 40 of his 80 years. {A photograph} from our wedding ceremony was not included.
I like Annie. We get alongside properly, and I’m very damage that she included these two footage of the “loving couple.” I really feel it was inappropriate for an album she expects to be displayed in our residence for household, buddies and neighbors to see.
I want to ask her to reprint the album with out these two footage. Am I being unreasonable?
— STEPMOM IN THE SOUTH
DEAR STEPMOM: As a result of you might have a very good relationship with Annie, clarify to her that you simply felt slighted while you noticed the album, and why.
Clarify that you want to to have the ability to prominently show it IF she would please both have it reprinted with the addition of a few photographs 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 girl who has just lately determined to leap again into the relationship pool.
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DEAR READY: The time to disclose your medical prognosis can be when the connection turns into romantic. It will be dishonest to withhold that info from somebody who’s investing emotionally in you.
Pricey Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, often known as Jeanne Phillips, and was based by her mom, Pauline Phillips. Contact Pricey Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Field 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
