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["Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>]

At 10:52 AM 1/26/05 -0800, you wrote:
> Dear Abby,
>
> My husband has a long record of money problems.  He runs up huge credit
>card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he shouts
>at me, saying I am stealing his money.  He says pay the minimum and let our
>kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up with the
>interest.  Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our neighbors
>that most of them no longer speak to us.  The few that do are an odd bunch,
>to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts, running up our bills
>even more.  Also, he has gotten religious in a big way, although I don't
>quite understand it.  One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with
>people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ.  And now he has been going to
>the gym an awful lot and is into wearing uniforms and cowboy outfits, and I
>hate to think what that means. Finally, the last straw:  He's demanding that
>before anyone can be in the same room with him, they must sign a loyalty
>oath.  It's just so horribly creepy!
>
> Can you help?
> Signed, Lost in DC
>
> Dear Lost,
>
>Stop whining, Laura.  You can divorce the jerk any time you want.  The rest
>of us are stuck with him for four more years!

LOL!