My best friend accused me of having an affair with…
DEAR ABBY: My best friend of 45 years and I are 65. She has been married since 1985; I’ve been divorced for a few years. She just lately shocked me by claiming that a mutual friend instructed her I’ve been having an affair with a married acquaintance! This is fake, however I now wonder if she mentioned it as a result of she suspects it herself.
When I received indignant and mentioned I’d confront the opposite friend, she demanded that I not achieve this as a result of it will “make her look bad for telling.” Could my suspicion be appropriate? If the opposite individual was the one who truly suspected me, why wouldn’t she need me to query her? — PUZZLED LADY OUT WEST
DEAR PUZZLED LADY: Not understanding your best friend of 45 years, I’m not in a place to reply that query. However, the surest option to get to the underside of this might be to go on to the individual your BFF mentioned instructed her and ask the place she received such an thought.
DEAR ABBY: For holidays and particular events, we normally have eight people at a six-place eating room desk. Two of our visitors are “orphans” who had been invited by my higher half. The downside is, the person, “George,” is a chain-smoker, and I nearly at all times get a splitting headache in his presence.
I can maintain my breath for the ten seconds or so when George and I hug hey, however what do you recommend I say or do on the dinner desk? I can be on the farthest finish attainable, however I’ll nonetheless be simply a few ft away from the issue. Uninviting them shouldn’t be an option. — SMOKED OUT IN CALIFORNIA
DEAR SMOKED OUT: Lucky you. You dwell in California, the place it’s attainable to open home windows and get cross-ventilation. Because it isn’t attainable to uninvite these visitors, give your eating room as a lot contemporary air as attainable and demand that in case your visitors “must” smoke, they do it outdoors and much from the open home windows.
DEAR ABBY: My daughter is getting married in a few weeks and is insisting I sit with her father on the ceremony. Abby, we’ve got been divorced for 20 years. I’ve been remarried for 12 years. Her father has not remarried.
My husband has not tried to interchange her father, and I feel it’s impolite that he can be anticipated to sit down with the visitors as an alternative of with me, his spouse. I used to be pressured to do that at my different daughter’s wedding ceremony a few months in the past, and it was very uncomfortable. I need to stay up for my daughter’s day. What is your tackle this? — MUSICAL CHAIRS IN PENNSYLVANIA
DEAR MUSICAL CHAIRS: You shouldn’t have agreed to that seating association at your different daughter’s wedding ceremony, and also you shouldn’t do it at this one. Your husband belongs subsequent to you. If you and your ex are pleasant, your ex might sit on the other facet of you out of your husband. If you’re not, he might sit on the finish of the row on the aisle. But your husband shouldn’t be pressured to sit down “with the other guests” as a result of he’s more than a visitor; he’s a member of the family.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, often known as Jeanne Phillips, and was based by her mom, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at http://www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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