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Child victim faces abuser at family events

By Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

You are not ultimately responsible for your wife's life, just as she is not ultimately responsible for your emptiness now. So stop blaming her.

You make two incorrect assumptions: that at late-middle age, you can't make any changes; and that if you fight about this, the sky will fall.

You sound more willing to have an affair than you are to try to improve your marriage.

You should welcome your wife into marriage counseling. It might be the very first thing you two do together, and it could be a game changer for both of you.

Dear Amy: "Grieving Daughter" described her mother's heartbreaking choice to withhold her cancer diagnosis from everyone, including her husband and children.

I know this seems unbelievable, but I had a family member do the same thing. I agree with Grieving that this increased our pain when the loss was so sudden.

 

-- Also Grieving

Dear Grieving: I'm so sorry.

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(You can contact Amy Dickinson via email: askamy@amydickinson.com. Readers may send postal mail to Amy Dickinson, c/o Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr., Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or "like" her on Facebook.)


 

 

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