Jeanne Phillips

Jeanne Phillips

LATEST STORIES BY JEANNE PHILLIPS

 

DEAR ABBY: Fiancee treats man more like a child than as a partner

DEAR ABBY: I’m engaged to a delightful woman from a foreign country. She’s a divorcee, and her 19-year-old son is doing well in college. She essentially raised him herself. Because of some spectrum disorder and ADHD symptoms, her son was apparently a handful. I am healthy, have multiple advanced degrees (including an M.D. and a Ph.D.), and have enjoyed a successful and lucrative career. I have raised six happy, healthy and independent children. I’ve worked very hard and have a substantial bankroll.

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May 10, 2025 Relationships
A woman's maternalistic attitude towards her fiance is a turn off.

DEAR ABBY: Alcohol overpowers love and reason for engaged couple

DEAR ABBY: My fiancee and I have been arguing almost every day. We have been verbally and emotionally hurting each other. I love her very much, but she has a severe alcohol disorder, and I want her to stop drinking. She keeps begging me for money whenever she runs out of her own. She wants me to buy her more alcohol, but I refuse. She has been mean and abusive to the people she loves, including me.

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May 8, 2025 Relationships
A woman will have to chose to stop drinking if she wants a chance at saving her relationship with her partner.

DEAR ABBY: Mother dumps all of her problems in teen’s lap

DEAR ABBY: Ever since I was a child, my mom has regarded me as wise, thoughtful and intelligent. She has confided about family issues, tensions at church and cheating at her workplace. Abby, I don’t want to be her confidant. Am I doomed to always hear her never-ending problems? She creates them herself by jumping to conclusions and suspecting everyone has ill intentions. While I understand this is to protect herself, it’s exhausting to listen to and to advise when I know nothing will change.

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May 4, 2025 Relationships
A teen feels her mother is treating her like a confidant.
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