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Page 6 The Ranger Thursday, June 24, 2021 THE OTHER COAST byAdrian Raeside SPEED BUMP by Dave Coverly THE OTHER COAST byAdrian Raeside Abigail Van Buren Husband loses desire to be intimate after seeing wife overdose DEAR ABBY: I have been mar- ried for three years to a woman who is very beautiful inside and out. (We have been together for six PEANUTS by Charles Schulz years.) Recently, I found out she is addicted to pain meds -- and two months ago she confided that she ARIES 5March 214April 196. had gotten hooked on heroin. Protect the activities you love so I set up an intervention to get you can keep on loving them. her into rehab. But when the time Helpful tactics: Be selective in came to go, she kept putting it off. choosing your activity partners, She said she wanted to get high and spend only the amount of “one more time,” so I told her OK, money you can aCord. as long as she did it at home, so I’d TAURUS 5April 204May 206. know she was safe. After she in- It’s only human to assume that jected herself, she went limp, so I others have a similar interior style called 911 and got her into the hospital. to our own, but of course, we vary It is now two months later, and widely in our thinking styles, valF GARFIELD byJim Davis she is back. I love her dearly, but I ues and boundaries. You’ll Dnd a no longer desire to be intimate kind way to tell people they’ve with her. How do I tell her I will crossed your invisible lines. Holiday Mathis always stand by her, but no longer GEMINI 5May 214June 216. want to be intimate? She’s younger Your sense of personal responsibilF and still has a strong sex drive. -- ity is extensive. You feel it’s your YOUR HOROSCOPE LOST THAT PART IN THE job to take care of those around EAST DEAR LOST: The news should you, uphold a standard of kindF SAGITTARIUS 5Nov. 224 be conveyed in the office of a li- ness and set a bar for generosity. Dec. 216. Gere’s a task you’ve censed marriage and family thera- Just don’t forget to extend the been avoiding due to its dreariness pist. While your sexual problem same to yourself, and probably as an idea, but it will go the way of may result from the shock of seeing Drst. so many ideas FF morphed by realF your wife nearly die in front of you, CANCER 5June 224July 226. ity into something entirely unexF ZACK HILL by John Deering and John Newcombe there may be more to it. You say To want something you don’t pected FF in this case, an she is “younger and STILL has a think you can have and then to get interesting endeavor. strong sex drive.” This suggests that it is a somersaultFworthy delight. CAPRICORN 5Dec. 224Jan. you are older and your lack of de- And yet, the experience pales in 196. If you don’t have a system, sire might to some extent be age- or hormone-related. comparison to the resounding don’t worry; the world will lend The two of you have a lot of contentment of wanting what you you one. And if you don’t like talking to do about your feelings already have. what you’re lent, you’ll be in a betF and your future. It would be better LEO 5July 234Aug. 226. ter position than you are now, a if it’s done with the help of a Today’s problem is like a lock. If position of knowing what to imF trained moderator. you know the combination, it’s prove upon. Also, if your wife was sharing easy to plug it in and pull it open. AQUARIUS 5Jan. 204Feb. 186. needles, you both need to be tested But coming up with the numbers You respect time and treat it as the for any diseases she may have con- would be hard and not worth your valuable commodity it is, teaching ONE BIG HAPPY by Rick Detorie tracted. time. Find someone who already others through example. You’re DEAR ABBY: My parents and knows the solution. prompt; you get to the point; and my wife’s parents both live 20 min- VIRGO 5Aug. 234Sept. 226. most importantly, you recognize utes from us. Both sets of parents Relationships are wrought with and avoid wasteful, lowFyield uses purposely moved to be close to us. false starts, detours and missed of your moments. The problem is both sets of parents connections ... all part of the PISCES 5Feb. 194March 206. tell people the few times we are to- magic. Believe it or not, the anticiF Your unconscious mind has an gether how often they see their pation caused by these delays is agenda it’s not sharing with your grandkids -- which is simply not what keeps the relationship on the conscious mind yet. It has its reaF true. dance Eoor. sons, though you’ll challenge them Mom talks as if she sees them LIBRA 5Sept. 234Oct. 236. It’s and win, the prize being interestF multiple times a week, although she generally sees them less than strange to have a talent people ing and empowering selfFknowlF ARCHIE by Archie Comics Publications, Craig Boldman and Fernando Ruiz once a month. She does watch my want and yet to feel largely unF edge. niece three days a week, but to hear seen. You are not alone in this TODAY’S BIRTHDAY 5June her tell it, all her grandkids fall into longing for understanding. You’ll 246. You embrace psychological that category. My wife’s parents see seek a deeper knowledge of others complexity and messiness, and me, my wife and our two kids and, in secret, hope it will teach therefore, people show you who about twice a month, but also tell you how to reveal yourself better, they really are. You connect in others it’s “all the time.” Then, too. honest ways that open your year to when we do meet, they ignore the SCORPIO 5Oct. 244Nov. 216. a wide range of experiences. You’ll kids! Newton’s Drst law said it best. “A be building something for many I am bothered about it for two reasons: They are taking undue body at rest will remain at rest, to enjoy, a continual and immerF credit for “helping us out,” and sec- and a body in motion will remain sive project you’ll need breaks ond, I’m sick of having heard for in motion unless it is acted upon from. Love is your safe haven. the last 12 years how “lucky” my by an external force.” Something Pisces and Aquarius adore you. ARCHIE by Archie Comics Publications, Craig Boldman and Fernando Ruiz kids are to have such wonderful gets you up and going, and then Your lucky numbers are: 8, 13, 25, grandparents. It caused us to miss you’re unstoppable. 6 and 2. out on help from extended family because they thought my wife and I were already receiving so much. Is there a nice way to say to my parents/in-laws that the story they are selling is fiction? We do love them. All we would like is for them to help out the way they claim to. - - SICK OF THE FICTION DEAR SICK OF THE FIC- TION: I find it strange that both sets of in-laws would relocate to be MOMMA by Mel Lazarus close, and then not follow through on trying to BE close. I also don’t know why your parents would loudly take credit for the things they haven’t been doing. If you want to end the fiction, tell the ex- tended family the truth and explain that you really do need their help and why. You should have done it years ago. Answer to Yesterday’s puzzle FLO & FRIENDS by Jenny Campbell Contact Stan Newman at [email protected].