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Anyone read Anne Landers?

ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
Today "The Honeymoon is Over" complained to Anne Landers that her husband had "betrayed" her. Seems that her husband is a gun enthusiast but that she made it clear under no uncertain terms that she didn't like guns and that if they were to marry, he had to get rid of his collection. He finally managed to wrangle a shotgun out of her, but she declared "just that one shotgun and no handguns."

Well, her husband just informed her that he had sold the shotgun and bought a handgun. She flipped her lid (her words, not mine), accusing him of betrayal and not knowing if she can trust her husband anymore.

"He's a great guy, but I just don't feel that I can trust him anymore," is what she said.

Annie's advice? "He seems genuinely sorry (he sold the pistol when she flipped out), so give him another chance. But let him no that one more breach of trust and you're going straight to the lawyer's office."

This is the advice column that advises women who are beaten to seek marriage counselling and for women whose husbands have cheated on them to forgive and forget... yet over one measly handgun she advises an ulitmatum and, failing that, divorce! What a hypocrite! As if her distaste of guns is more important than this woman's marriage!

Makes me sick.
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  • powdersmokepowdersmoke Member Posts: 3,241
    edited November -1
    So.....This is different how from what you expected from a gossipping buzy body????

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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    Saw that column and told MRS GHD about it! Her comment was, "I've just learned to live with it!" I agree that that was a stupid reply on the columnists part!!!! Throw a marraige away over an item that could protect your life someday!!!! Probably sooner rather than later judging from the events of the recent past!!!! GHD
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  • ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
    edited November -1
    Most of the time her advice is more level-headed. I know I shouldn't have expected more out of her, but still, when I see blind adherence to the party line in defiance of all common sense and logic, I can't help but get p!$$ed off.
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  • RhondaRhonda Member Posts: 183 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds like the guy should beat her to the "draw", get a divorce, buy all the guns he wants, then find himself a good women like mine, who will reload, hunt, and shoot with him. We are heading to deer camp tomorrow morning to check things out together. Jim
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  • desertratyvdesertratyv Member Posts: 14 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ann Landers is the diarrhea of this great nation. The mouthpiece of the liberal front i.e Klinton x2 Feinstein/boxer Kennedy's. Anything she says or does doesnt surprise me whatsoever. It's only too bad that in the world of accidental shootings, that her husband didnt drop that gun and end her tireless liberal blather!!!!!!! one less to worry about!!!!!!!!!!

    Robert J. Ehrenfried
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  • nordnord Member Posts: 6,106 ✭
    edited November -1
    Without being too base let's look at this like it really is...

    Guys are oftimes not too smart. Men often let hormones do most of their thinking... You could say they're constantly in heat, or they live in an altered state.

    In any case the gentleman in question evidently was given a choice between a neat little pistol and a warm and inviting woman. His impaired thought process led him to the conclusion that he could perhaps fib a bit and enjoy both.

    Not so! He signed up for a trip that soothed his raging hormones at the expense of a bit of personal freedom. She signed up to sooth his needs on a conditional basis. (That being that there would be no soothing unless she was in charge of his freedom.) In my experience it gets more conditional as time passes, but the good part is that as the hormones subside we begin to care less.

    I can only say that the boy is in big trouble. He made the promise. He's the one who determined that whatever she had was better than what the pistol had. Only when he reaches 50 or so will the light go on. Until then he's toast.

    Nord
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I read the same article; before I got married the second time laid it out to my wife in this order

    #1 I am who I am
    #2 I have guns, I shoot, hunt, etc.
    #3 I Work and Provide and will be loving a caring.
    #4 I am not perfect! I make dumb mistakes like anybody, correct me
    I am only human
    #5 I live by the ten (try to) Commandments
    #6 you are my equal- But if the above don't work, your not for me-
    [;)]

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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hasn't she (Anne) gone to meet her maker?
    Pete

    "Be kind to your neighbor, he knows where you live"
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My ex didn't like firearms much, but tolerated them to a degree. Second time around, I made it clear I had and would continue to have firearms in my house - and on my person when I felt the desire. About two weeks back I was informed I had not made that clear before we married; I printed out my very first letter to her and highlighted the passage in which I said "I like to hunt and shoot. I own many firearms, keep them in my house and will continue to do so for the rest of my life." End of discussion . . . .

    My ex always read Ann Landers / Dear Abby and treated their advice as if it had been chiseled in stone in the Sinai. At least my second wife has some objectivity.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quit reading her "bull" years ago, when I found out how she stood on the gun issue.

    He should dump her and find a (GOOD) woman.

    The gene pool needs chlorine.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    She writing from the grave now days?

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  • kingjoeykingjoey Member Posts: 8,636
    edited November -1
    A real "ghost writer" I guess[;)]

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  • ElMuertoMonkeyElMuertoMonkey Member Posts: 12,898
    edited November -1
    It's the Anne Landers column. She did indeed pass on, but they sorta franchised it.
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  • gruntledgruntled Member Posts: 8,218 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's not Ann Landers that's two ugly gals who used to work for her.
    The column is called "Annie's Mailbox" & their names are Kathy Mitchell & Marcy Sugar. From their pictures you can see why they have a hate on for all men.
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