Addicted daughter tests family with tough love plea
Dear Amy, a 29 year old daughter with years of drug treatment and whose abuse has strained family ties returns home with court issues and a risk to an innocent grandchild. Parents seek guidance on maintaining detachment and pushing rehab while avoiding enabling behavior.
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Daniel Meachum
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Dear Abby readers weigh social ties and introverted partners
Readers respond to a letter about a fiancés reluctance to join family events. Advice cites possible introversion or social anxiety and urges counseling to uncover underlying causes. Other letters share coping with socially avoidant partners and the value of compromise in marriage.
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Abby
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Joe
S.O
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Gibson Grigorieva custody hearing resumes in sealed session
Actor Mel Gibson returns to court for a custody fight with Oksana Grigorieva. The daylong hearing was closed to the public with no comments from either side. The case remains sealed and reconvenes on December 15. Grigorieva has spoken publicly in recent months.
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Oksana Grigorieva
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Protective instinct helps in danger say readers
A reader thanks a protective parent whose actions may have saved a life. Dr Sylvia B Rimm of Cleveland explains parenting strategies and offers contact via Sylviarimm com for more information on raising kids.
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Family Achievement Clinic
Cleveland
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Sylviarimm.com
P.O. Box
Watertown
Sylviarimm
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