Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 116, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 January 1983 — Page 6

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 22,1983

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Dear Abby Affair confession threatens retirement DEAR ABBY: My parents have been married for over 35 years. They’ve raised a fine family and deserve to have a wonderful retirement. But something happened about 10 years ago that has had a devastating effect on their marriage, and things have been going downhill ever since. My father had an affair with a woman of questionable character. It lasted three years. No one knew (no gossip), but for some reason be unloaded the whole story on my mother. She couldn’t eat for weeks, and she was so shaken and distraught she required medical treatment. To this day she is a very bitter woman. Their relationship is only tolerable, even though my father has done everything in his power to make it up to her. They tried counseling. It helped him to forgive himself, but it hasn’t helped her to forgive him. Can a woman ever really forgive an unfaithful spouse? I know if the shoe were on the other foot, Dad would have forgiven her. Is there such a thing as male and female mentality? How can we help Mother? DAUGHTER IN THE MIDDLE DEAR DAUGHTER: The ability to forgive an unfaithful spouse comes no more easily to a man than a woman. “Confessions” of this kind usually do more harm than good. That was your father’s second mistake. (The first was fooling around with another woman.) Yes, women can forgive if they really want to. Your mother needs to get into therapy to find out why she’s hanging on to her bitterness. Urge her to get help. If she refuses, she’s expressing her sick determination to suffer and make everyone around her miserable, too. * * * DEAR ABBY: Please set me straight. I am considered intelligent and well-mannered, with a good sense of humor. I am 73. My husband is 75. What happened to the good old days when pleasant conversation was a part of a family dinner? Recently while we were guests for dinner at our daughter’s home, she asked me to please call everyone to the table. I did, then I shut off the TV, which was screaming. My son-in-law immediately followed me and turned the TV on again. It remained on for the entire meal, and our daughter didn’t say one word to him about it. Of course there was absolutely no conversation during dinner. The TV' is located no more than five feet from the dinner table. Neither my husband nor I could relax, and we didn’t eat much. I do not expect soft music and candlelight, but I think this was very had manners. How can something like this be avoided in the future? MIDWEST MOTHER DEAR MOTHER: Since your son-in-law turned the TV on after you turned it off, his message was clear: It’s my house and I don’t care how you feel about TV' during dinner I want it on, and if you don’t like it, tough! Your daughter’s silence indicated she either agreed with her husband or didn’t have the courage to speak up in your behalf. It’s unfortunate. But all you can do is decline future dinner invitations to your daughter’s home and tell her why. * * * DEAR ABBY: Every once in a while I see letters in your column concerning the pros and cons of remaining a virgin until marriage. I’m 27 years old, attractive (or so people say) and I'm saving myself for the man I marry. Outside of the fact that premarital sex is morally wrong, here are a few other reasons: 1. I do not have to worry about getting a disease. 2. I do not have to worry about getting pregnant. 3. I do not have to wonder if a guy really cares for me or if he's just using me for sex. I have been out with many guys who have tried to get me into bed, and after I tell them I am saving myself for the man I marry, I never hear from them again. This is fine with me. Why waste time on a guy who looks at me only as something to be used? When I get married, I want to give my husband a very special gift, something I’ve given to no one else I’ve ever known. What can be more special than myself? HOLDING OUT AND PROUD OF IT DEAR HOLDING: Your reasons for “holding out” are valid, sensible and marvelously refreshing! * * * Getting married? Whether you want a formal church wedding or a simple, “do-your-own-thing” ceremony, get Abby’s new booklet. Send $1 plus a long, self-addressed, stamped (37 cents) envelope to: Abby’s Wedding Booklet, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038. Every teen-ager should know the truth about drugs, sex and how to be happy. For Abby’s booklet, send $2 and a long, stamped (37 cents), addressed envelope to: Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 38923, Hollywood, Calif. 90038.

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People in the news Liz, Carol head HBO movie cast LOS ANGELES (AP) - Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett will star as two middle-aged women drawn together after their divorces in “Intimate Strangers,” a movie for the Home Box Office pay television network. The film will go into production in Toronto, Canada, on Jan. 31, Michael Fuchs, HBO’s executive vice president for programming, said Friday. The venture was announced during a news conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where the actresses took turns cracking jokes. “A job’s a job,” Miss Burnett said. “Elizabeth and I play two women. They wanted Dustin Hoffman. He couldn’t do it.” “It’ll feed my parrot.” Miss Taylor said of her pay for the movie. It is the first performance in pay television for Miss Taylor, a two-time Academy Award-winner, and Miss Burnett, a five-time Emmy winner. “Intimate Strangers” is a comedy-drama of two middleaged divorcees in New England whose friendship sees them through loneliness, tight money and alcohol as each struggles to live without a man in her life. “She plays the nympho and I play the drunk.” Miss Taylor joked. • PROVO. Utah (AP) Fans of singer Kenny Loggins. who broke two ribs when he fell off a stage before a Brigham Young University concert, may be abs to see him perform within a month. 7 University spokesman Paul Richards said the school w r as negotiating with United Concerts and Loggins’ representatives to reschedule the concert. Loggins, 35, showed no signs of injuries to internal organs from the fall Thursday, but w'as expected to remain hospitalized for part of the weekend, said Utah Valley Hospital spokeswoman Joann Reece. She said X-rays taken Friday showed Loggins had two broken ribs, but no other internal damage. He was in satisfactory condition.

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