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Ask Amy: Overwhelmed man wants to withdraw

Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

Your experience of the pandemic has amplified everything for you, and like many people (myself included), you are resisting “getting back out there.”

Please, detach from whatever social media is triggering you. (I’ve done this, and it has helped.) You could preserve some of your real-world relationships with people who are good at life but awful on social media.

You and your wife should make a date to take your baby to a park, café, or playground. Sit together and enjoy your child. Tiptoe out into the world in stages, and you’ll encounter parents of young children and other people (like me) who are also fumbling, blinking, and gingerly emerging.

Dear Amy: My husband of 17 years thinks it's OK that we live in different countries. We have lived apart for 11 years now, and I live with both of our children. He barely supports us.

I asked for a divorce. He accepts but insisted that I betrayed him.

He is guilt-tripping me by reminiscing about the beginning of our marriage.

 

I am confused by his reaction. How should I proceed?

– Confused

Dear Confused: You should proceed directly to your lawyer’s office.

In addition to any actual sentiment on your husband’s part, you could assume that maintaining the status quo of living apart is quite simply cheaper for him than paying child support.

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