Dear Abby: A forty five-year-old {photograph} is ripping my dad and mom aside, and I’m trapped within the center

DEAR ABBY: My dad and mom obtained into an argument as a result of my father noticed my mom an previous photograph of herself from when she was youthful. (It had been despatched by her cousin by way of textual content.) In it, she was sitting subsequent to “an ex-boyfriend or friend.” My father thought it was disrespectful, however my mom didn’t agree.

Mom thought it was trivial for him to get upset since she was solely 18 or 19 and the photograph was taken 45 years in the past. It was method earlier than my mom had even met my father. Later, she talked about to Dad that she remembered seeing an previous image of him and his ex-wife dressed up for a live performance. He denied it, and she or he didn’t get upset.

She instructed me later she doesn’t remorse receiving the image as a result of she now not has romantic emotions for my father. You see, my dad and mom aren’t legally married; they’re simply roommates splitting the payments collectively. I don’t know the way to really feel about this. I don’t need to be concerned, however they each have come to me individually expressing their emotions about it. What are your ideas? — IN THE MIDDLE IN TEXAS

DEAR IN THE MIDDLE: I believe that your father was much less upset concerning the arrival of that 45-year-old photograph than he’s about the truth that your mom now not has romantic emotions for him. I additionally suppose you must keep out of this and now not enable your self to be put within the center, which is what your dad and mom are attempting to do.

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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, often known as Jeanne Phillips, and was based by her mom, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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