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DEAR ABBY: Recently, I kindly and lovingly gave my daughter some feedback on how she berates her husband in front of my 8-year-old grandson. I told her I didn’t want him to grow up thinking that’s how we treat the people we love. To make a long story short, she said that if I wanted to estrange myself from her, I had succeeded. I remained calm and loving and told her she could use the feedback if it was helpful, or ignore it if it wasn’t. She has now blocked me!
Read moreDEAR ABBY: When my then-boyfriend asked me to marry him, he didn’t have a ring ready, but I happily accepted his proposal. We were in our late 20s and had been dating for almost 10 years. He then took me to the jewelry store so I could select one to my taste and liking (within budget). We took a picture of the ring, and he told me he would bring his mother back to the jewelry shop with him so she could help with the price haggling.
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DEAR ABBY: Since I moved eight years ago, my son, “Jim,” has visited me only once, and that’s because I gave his son my car. I rarely hear from him, and when I have visited, we barely talk. We have totally different ideas on life, and it has caused a rift in our relationship.
Read moreWhen donating to charity, many donors choose to contribute to child sponsorship organizations that assist needy children at home or abroad.
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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been together since we were 21, and he has always had a distant relationship with his parents. I encouraged him during the first few years of our marriage to call them and visit. I stopped doing that after his mom and I had some choice words.
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In India, Dashrath Manjh became known as “Mountain Man” because he single-handedly cut a road through a mountain using only a hammer and chisel— and 22 years. In the eastern part of India, Loungi Bhuiya had watched young men, including his four sons, leave the village because farming was almost impossible in the region. There was plenty of water, but rainfall quickly ran into the Falgu River and swept away. If only a canal could divert water from a forest source into a village pond, it could be used for irrigation. But the canal would need to be two miles long.
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