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Dear Abby: My husband is charging me $300 to watch…

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I’ve two kids and work reverse night shifts so that one of us is home with the children at all occasions. Recently, my best good friend from high faculty stunned me with live performance tickets to our favourite band, but the live performance is on a evening I’m supposed to be with the children. 

I don’t have any associates or household around to babysit the youngsters, so I requested my boyfriend if he would take the evening off so that I can go to this live performance. He told me the only approach he would do that is if I reimburse him for his missed wages (roughly $300). Do you assume it’s truthful to charge me to watch his own kids? — CONFUSED IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

DEAR CONFUSED: Should you reimburse your boyfriend for the wages he’ll miss if he takes off work so you possibly can attend that live performance? If his employer doesn’t present for personal time off, he will probably be out the money, and since you’re the one altering your agreed-upon association, you must reimburse him. What the 2 of you need to work out in the future is some kind of plan so your kids will probably be taken care of in the (hopefully unlikely) event that one thing ought to occur to both of you at the same time.

DEAR ABBY: My spouse and I’ve lived in a nation home for the past 25 years. When we moved right here, our only neighbors have been wild turkeys, deer and raccoons. Behind our home have been 20 acres of woods, which prolonged into a cornfield. We have been remoted and liked it. 

Since then, a housing development has slowly been constructed around us. Last fall, a couple constructed a home behind us. Their rear deck is within 20 toes of our property line. The back of their home has large bed room home windows. They cut down all of the gorgeous, mature trees from their lot.

I’ve always had a dusk-to-dawn sensor gentle at the rear of my home for security causes and to dissuade raccoons. Now this couple is complaining that because their home is so close to my property line and the trees (which acted as a privateness barrier) are gone, my security gentle of 25 years is shining into their bed room home windows and disturbing them. They need me to get rid of it. 

Of course, my perspective is that we and that gentle have been right here for 25 years. They noticed our home and property traces before they selected to construct there and take away all their trees. I’m not inclined to accommodate them, but I’m open to options from you. — BRIGHT GUY IN OHIO

DEAR BRIGHT GUY: I do have one. Explain to these new neighbors that your security gentle was put in to discourage trespassers and wild animals. Then recommend they set up blackout curtains or shutters in their bed room home windows to stop undesirable gentle from seeping in. If that doesn’t remedy the issue, and there is a governing physique for your growing neighborhood, ask that the matter be mediated. 

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also identified as Jeanne Phillips, and was based by her mom, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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