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Man wonders if he is a worthy rival to his GF's phone

By Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

Dear Amy: I am a 57-year-old man dating a 49-year-old woman. We've been together for over a year.

She is beautiful, smart, sexy, and tons of fun. However, she never puts her phone down.

No matter what we are doing or where we are, she is texting and answering texts from her teenage children. This goes on, no matter how serious or inconsequential the issue is.

She will sit in a dark movie theater and text her son about where his shoes are, or answer questions that could definitely wait until she isn't busy.

Her reply is that she has three kids and has to be available to them always, no matter what.

She literally has rolled over in bed, grabbed her phone and answered questions about family birthdays, etc.

 

To make it even more complicated, she plays online games and thinks nothing of whipping out her phone in a nice restaurant as I sit there so humiliated while waitresses look at me with pity.

She says I am old-fashioned and that this is normal behavior. Is it?

-- Old-fashioned Guy

Dear Old-fashioned: Let's grant your gal her obsession with her teenage kids' shoes. If she is an involved mom and not at home because she is with you, then I'd say yes -- she should get a pass to communicate with them, even though she seems to do so to a ridiculous degree. (But no texting in the movie theater, Mom!)

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