Dear Abby: My husband’s daughter lives in another state. When Covid hit and the schools closed, his youngest daughter did not have a laptop or tablet (and the school did not provide one), so he could not do his school work.
We sacrifice to provide the child with a tablet and put it in our telephone plan so that she had access if her Wi-Fi bogues or not worked.
Fast advance until today. That child is out of high school and no longer lives at home. His mother has possession of the tablet and uses it regularly.
I am still paying for Internet access: what I have paid in just monthly rates is many times the value of the tablet. The mother has a good job and could take care of the plan.
In addition to that, not much effort to keep in touch with his father or me. Months spend telephone calls or text messages, and the last time I marked their number, I received a message that made it seemed that I had blocked my number. His father’s phone calls are not a response.
I want to turn off the line to which the tablet is connected, but I know that when she considers it, she will call the fury that was a gift. However, it was a gift for her daughterNot for her.
Should I keep paying to maintain peace or close it?
– Molded stepmother
Dear Madrastra: I can see why you could be upset. Her husband’s daughter is distant and is not interested in fossing a relationship with your father or with you.
Discuss this with her husband. Because your daughter has a job and can pay the access rate, there is no logical reason why you should pay the invoice.
Dear Abby: I have my leg with my boyfriend for 3 and a half years. Before me, he was known for sleeping.
He has never deceived me of what I am aware of, but when we go to social meetings (or simply out), it flirts with other women. If there is another woman in the room, he keeps her in view as if he can’t see what happens. When you drink, it’s 10 times worse.
I have told him several times that he really bothered me; He said he was exaggerating.
I am trying to let it go, but my feelings deeply hurts.
In his mind, it is good that we go for a while with women with whom he has been in bed. He says it’s not much.
How do I learn to deal with all this and be happy? I just want the respect I deserve.
– Bride or Popular Mr.
Dear girlfriend: If you want the respect you deserve, find a man who respects women. Clearly your boyfriend does not.
If you worry about your faes, do not smell other women while the two are together. Doing it after you told him how it affected you is rude and inconsiderate.
I know you have invested a long time in this person, but he will not change. Unless you want to be married to a womanizer with a drink problem, you finish the romance now. (And once this is done, ask your doctor to examine it in search of STDs).
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