Dear Abby Responds to Marriage, Etiquette, and Health Queries

In a recent edition of the longstanding advice column Dear Abby, syndicated columnist Jeanne Phillips, writing under the pseudonym Abigail Van Buren, responded to three readers grappling with personal dilemmas involving relationships, social etiquette, and everyday health concerns.

The first letter came from a man in Connecticut who described ongoing tension in his seven-year marriage. He explained that his wife has been secretly visiting her ex-husband on multiple occasions, sometimes with the ex-husband's spouse present and sometimes without. The writer noted that his wife, who manages major depression with medication but refuses counseling, prohibits him from contacting or visiting any women from his past unless she is there. He added that her family has shared that she was unfaithful in previous relationships, while he remains faithful. The man, identifying as "Upset in Connecticut," questioned whether he should ignore the situation or express his distress.

Phillips affirmed that the writer is justified in feeling upset, pointing to what she described as a double standard in the marriage. "The woman to whom you are married appears to live by a double standard," she wrote....