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Dear Ann Landers,
need some help and I need it fast. Whenever I say to my thirteen-year-old, "That's enough TV, go do your homework," my husband yells, "Stop nagging the boy." When I tell my ten-year-old to go back upstairs and wash his neck, his dad shouts, "Don't be such a perfectionist. He's clean enough." Yesterday, my eleven-year-old came to the breakfast table in soiled trousers and a wrinkled shirt which he had worn for two days. I told him to change his clothes. His dad chimed in, "The boy looks all right. Stop picking on him." The kids get the idea I'm a witch left over from Halloween and their dad is a saint. What can I do?-De-fenseless

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, whatever they needed I provided. What really hurt my son and I the most was the obituary - we were not mentioned at all. Our friends (mine and hers) were appalled. I was embarrassed and upset for not just me, but for my son-who loved her also. I never been so upset. Her x-husband put his wife and kids and their grandchildren in the obituary, who my girlfriend barely knew. They live an hour away from us. I know its silly to be mad over a little section of the newspaper, but it still hurts. Will time let this devastating loss of her and this article ever go away? I am so angry at this whole situation, its not like we can go and rewrite an obituary notice.

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