Dear Ann Landers, 'm getting pretty sick of your pat answers. They are beginning to sound as if you crank them out of a machine. I refer specifically to your replies to hus- 10 bands who complain about iceberg wives. My wife has been a stationary snowdrift from the day we married. For fourteen years I have put up with her excuses, and "duty" expressions of marital bliss. I first started to kid her about finding satis-faction elsewhere if she didn't warm up. Later I stopped kidding and made the threat in earnest. Her answer was, "I don't care what you do so long as you don't bother me." I am thirty-five. My wife is thirty-three. This is too young to dry up and blow away. She is an excellent mother, a fine house-keeper, a gracious hostess, and active in the League of Women Voters, but she is more than cold-she's frozen. Be practical and give me an answer that does more than take up two inches of newspaper space.-Starvation Diet
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Dear Readers, , but I'm about ready to call it quits. Every time we get together, Grandma picks on my daughter and totally ignores my son. She feels it is her place to correct and discipline them. My children's behavior is fine, Ann. They are good kids and well-behaved. My mother freaks out over issues that make very little sense and bother no one but her.
Mom doesn't seem to realize that she is going to leave my children no happy memories of their grandmother. The way things stand now, they don't want to be around her because she is always 'bossing them around.' I love Mom dearly, but frankly, I do not LIKE her. I wish my children could enjoy having a grandmother, but this doesn't seem possible. Please, Ann, I know she reads you every day. Maybe if she sees this in the newspaper, it will help. -- J.W. in Southern Calif.
