Show 61 7 BY AMY AD 6 SHE DOESN'T KNOW HER REAL PROBLEM Dear Amy I am 16 years old and I have haven havea n a problem At the age of 13 I Ibe be began an drinking at all an party and it has become progressively worse so bad In fact that I often have blackouts Each week I consume approximately two fifths of oC hard liquor and please dont don't tell me to quit for I am hooked and I enjoy drinking Im I'm an only chIld chUd and both my work so I am left alone most of the time Luckily I have n a 21 2 1 year old friend boy and he can get liquor cheap ch p In money but not In Indignity indignity dignity The problem is this guy He expects more and more In pay pay- payment ment for Cor nay my booze lIes lIe's got me trapped and he knows I cant can't stop Ie he has threatened not to give me any more stuff If I dont don't give him what he wants Hung Up Dear Hung Up Your OUt problem is 18 m mire rc serious than you think Whether you realize It or 01 nut you yoa are kmIn killing YO lr ly folo but A person ha tl t be Lt LI enough to ore are an alcoholic you baw dune then s seek k help to ta con cone e tl tbs tb's home boore before beCore It cOl thesis them Please toll tell your your clel or any other adult who cun lead you In iii the right d direction 0 n to properly trained d people who can help you Good Ouch luckS 5 Amy You have helped meso me so many many times that I am writing again but now my problem concerns guests Some people like their tea some like It weak How do I go about serving this also go for coffee Mrs J 7 D Dear Der Mrs 1 D 1 When serving guests tea let them their own ovis with wih tea hugs bag COffle Coffee my dear der is n a different sto One never changes ones one's brew to pleaze anyone Friendships have grown on the CIC strength of ones one's coee coffee hut but I have never heard of strained friendships on grounds S Sc Dear Amy My wife and I supposedly my any wife have been I Lying together gether for Cor three years Im I'm madly in love with her but she doesn't feel the same about me She refuses to marry me because she says that she wouldn't be free freeto freeto to leave me when the spirit moved her What can I do Mr D W Dear Mr n I XV W perfect This woman represents the per per- utopia for Il a man so Inclined to pick up her tabs no strings attached But Dut you made the mis take of failing In love with hed her Since your inclinations are at the opposite ends of morality the void can cun never be bridged She was WIlS honest with you now be behonest honest with yourself and get oil off the nJ r st marriage marriage-go- r round and find a woman who ho wants to share the sanctity of love marriage h home 0 me and asid anda a family Camily 5 5 Dear Amy I have been bedridden for 2 years I have two lovely children ages five and she sLi During my ill ill- illness I ness m any mother law has been taking care of the children Also during thi period my mother mother- law Inlaw has encouraged my dren to 10 come to her with their problems and even to call her mother I mn able now to my ob as n a housewife and and I would her to leave She has her own apart apart- m nt I have discussed this with my hUl band but he to voice an opInion My children prefer her to nie me I appreciate her taking care of oC my children but now I wont want my childrens children's love have back baele Mother Ex-Mother Dear Mother Fur There Is not enough gratitude or money In the world to repay your mother law for her un- un sin devotion to you and your fatally family Trent Treat her kindly nut But tell her that you arc rend ready to take over now nos mid that sh she can finally go home and live her own life A woman S I as she cant can't lat hut understand un sand she wIll lIy thank God You haven't oat ost Uc the love Jove of your children As time goes by you see Address all to AMY ADAMS o c do TillS NEWSPAPER For It a personal reply enclose a af f stamped cd self addressed envelope |