Dear Abby columns

This topic was created in the The Powder Room forum by lisabethur8 on Sunday, July 5, 2015 and has 3 replies.
Do any of you ladies ever read those "dear___" columns?

This one is recent; saw it on yahoo news:

http://entertainment.suntimes.com/lifestyles/dear-abby-marriage-slovenly-wife-brings-man-close-tears/

DEAR ABBY: I have been married 40 years, and it??s just the two of us. I work full time and make a good living. We have a large house in a great neighborhood. My problem is my wife. She hasn??t worked throughout almost all of our marriage and has to be the laziest person I know. We haven??t slept in the same bed for 20 years. She weighs 300 pounds and is always going to diet, but never really does. She sleeps in her own bedroom with a huge walk-in closet piled up to the top shelf with nice items she refuses to put away. She also has a separate bathroom and living room. Her section of the house is a pigsty. It stinks to high heaven because she never gets around to cleaning it. The kitchen is worse. She never cooks a meal. Either I do it after cleaning up, or I live off TV dinners.

When it comes to our finances, we??re up to our eyeballs in debt. She spends money like it grows on trees. If I ask a simple question, her replies are mean and sarcastic. I would have gotten a divorce a long time ago if I could afford one. I??m a reasonably good-looking guy. I could have had an affair ages ago, but I wasn??t brought up that way. Don??t bother saying she should get counseling. According to her, she has no problems. I am so tired of living the way I do, I could just cry if I thought it would do any good. What do you think? ??? BUMMED OUT IN SAN DIEGO

DEAR BUMMED OUT: If your wife is happy living this way, she may be right. She isn??t the person with the problem ??? you are. Although she may not be open to counseling, you should have some to help you understand why you have tolerated this one-sided arrangement for 20 years. You say you may not be able to afford a divorce, but if what??s driving you to the poorhouse is your free-spending spouse, it would also be in your interest to consult an attorney to find out if it??s possible to break that cycle"

Posted by Arielle83
Yuckkkkk

He should dump her pathetic ass. Poor guy.

lol


he must really really love her for awhile there.
probably walked all over him, since it sounds like she doesn't respect him. O__O