Posted on 11/21/2024 5:20:58 AM PST by Enterprise
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 64-year-old guy. I am single and have two daughters and four grandkids. A young woman (“Sarah”), who is my daughter’s age, and I have been hiking buddies for the past five years. I treat her like my third daughter and a family member. Sarah is married, and her husband does not enjoy hiking. Her husband and my daughters accept our friendship and are happy that I found a person I can hike with.
I have been dating a lady (“Toni”) who is close to my age. Six months ago, I suggested we should spend our lives together. My daughters and Sarah were happy for me. Toni rejected my proposal, citing that I must have some kind of romantic relationship with Sarah.
When I mentioned it to Sarah, she distanced from me. I think she thinks she may have interfered with my relationship with Toni. We’re still friends but not like before. Should I talk to Sarah and ask why she distanced from me? I feel depressed about this and have some remorse. I should not have told her what Toni said.
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I didn’t see that his daughter was along. I was seeing his “hiking buddy” was this woman in her 30s and it was just those two... and he enjoyed her companionship on the trail so much.
It would be a little different if his daughter, this other female, and whoever else went hiking as a group. But if it’s just him and a married woman half his age meeting up and doing hours long adventures together, that’s poison to a marriage.
The woman was smart not to accept his proposal.
I can see you’re a lot of fun at a party.
I don’t even believe these people exist.
Exactly my point. You pontificate like you totally know what's going on based on nothing.
Thank you for sharing.
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She is deceased. Her daughter writes the column now.
"Dear Abby, the iconic advice column, was originally written by Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips (1918-2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren. She founded the column in 1956 and wrote it until her death in 2013.
After Pauline Phillips’ passing, her daughter Jeanne Phillips took over as the writer of Dear Abby. Jeanne Phillips has been writing the column since 2000 and continues to do so today. She is also known as Abigail Van Buren, just like her mother.
Wrong JO, I shot off my big mouth just like everyone else based on the ridiculous facts presented in the “Dear Abbey” fake letter.
Did you not see that he was more upset by his daughter’s friend “distancing” herself from him, than he was by the woman who rejected his marriage proposal?
These letters are written to promote debate. They are fake.
go ahead! I thought the mods would pull that as they are humorless prudes.
Good one!
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