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ACROSS
1 Thing with
three feet
5 Mucho
10 Life __ know it
14 On the quiet
side
15 Has a go
16 Steady guy
17 Really cool
traffic sound?
19 __’acte
20 Hardy
21 Makes blue,
maybe
23 Friendly
opening?
24 Literary count,
familiarly
27 Up in the air
29 Reaction to
an impressive
flower?
33 Feat
34 Large cask
35 Mediterranean
island nation
36 “__ not over”
37 Summer
getaway for
a young Peter
Parker?
40 Go awry
41 Kitchen
magnet?
43 Game with
a “Moo!”
version for
preschoolers
44 Future atty.’s
hurdle
45 Waterproofer’s
guarantee?
49 Rio Grande
city
50 Env. directive
51 Short-order
order
52 Ceremony
54 Beasts of
burden
58 “How the
Other Half
Lives” author
Jacob
60 Part of a bad
restaurant
review on Ye lp?
63 Cornerstone
word
64 In need of a
sweep
65 French friend
66 Like custard
67 Beginning
68 Remain
unsettled,
or, read as two
words, what
five of this
puzzle’s long
answers haveDOWN
1 Shaggy beasts
2 Came to rest
3 Pull up stakes
for one’s co.
4 Played for a
chump
5 Env. insert
6 Eye, to a bard
7 Headed for
extra innings
8 “Bye now”
9 Shivering trees
10 Japanese prime
minister since
2012
11 Dakar residents
12 What prevents
time from
slipping away?
13 German capital
18 Raison d’__
22 One of the
Stooges
25 Penny-__
26 Fish used for bait28 Supermarket
franchise
initials
29 Initiate
30 Striking a chord
(with)
31 As prompted
32 Hair line
33 Old TV control
37 Word with
buffalo or wings
38 “Frozen” sister39 Academic
42 Dept. head
44 Shot spoiler
46 “You couldn’t
have!” retort
47 Security
lighting trigger
48 Deer sir
51 Highlands
hillside
53 Short-lived
spinoff of “TheDukes of
Hazzard”
55 Identical
56 Sportscaster
Andrews
57 Went fast
59 __ sauce
61 Mineral suffix
62 Paper read on
the LIRR or
Metro-North,
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Hi, Carolyn: I
have been
estranged from my
son for about 12
years; he refuses to
have any contact
with me. It was his
decision soon after
I divorced his
mother.
Ironically, a few years after
that, my son was divorced from
his first wife. He is now
remarried. I learned recently he
and his second wife just had a
baby, my granddaughter.
I am thinking of corresponding
with his wife to convince her that
I should be able to see my
granddaughter. Such attempts
could create friction in my son’s
marriage.
Should I try to convince my
daughter-in-law that I should be
able to see my granddaughter or
just wait for a time my son might
seek reconciliation?
— L.L.: O h my goodness, no, no, no. It
would be bad enough if you tried
to get access to your son through
this emotional back door — but
trying it to gain access to your
granddaughter? Because you
think you “should” have access?
That would be an inexcusable
invasion of your son’s household
for your own emotional ends.
I take your pain seriously. Ifany of my kids cut me off, a part of
me would die.
But even pain that profound
doesn’t justify undermining your
son’s rightful authority to decide
who has access to his family.
That you would consider doing
so is the second thing in your
letter to say, “Please get therapy,”
if at all possible.
The first is the estrangement
itself. The endless variations on
the countless possibilities for
what can go haywire in a family
actually fit pretty well into three
boxes: 1. You did something to
estrange your son and you know
it but won’t give him the
satisfaction of owning it; 2. You
did something to estrange your
son and lack the self-awareness to
see and understand it; 3. You did
nothing to your son to justify
estrangement, making your
current torment the equivalent of
prison for a crime you didn’t
commit. All of these are the kind
of serious, complicated problems
therapy exists to address.
And backdoor contact is the
kind of boundary violation it
exists to prevent.
You sound past due to run your
estrangement problem,
whichever one it happens to be,
by a practitioner trained to help
you figure it out.
So start looking for someone
today, please, before you do
something three generations regret.Dear Carolyn: What to do about
my girlfriend who doesn’t want
my kids around and who
threatens to end our
relationship if I let them come
over?
— AnonymousAnonymous: 1. Break up with her
immediately;- Ask yourself why you had to
ask and didn’t just break up with
her immediately when you
learned she was not only selfish
but also a bully. And: therapy. If
you can. - Apologize to your kids for
not waking up to her poor
character — and to your mistake
in choosing her — immediately.
Apologize for the amount of time
you exposed them to her toxicity
before you figured it all out. Even
if they didn’t spend time with her,
you did, as she actively
campaigned to make you less
available to them. - Promise them you will
choose more carefully next time,
if there is a next time while they
are still minors. - Keep your promise.
Write to Carolyn Hax at
[email protected]. Get her column
delivered to your inbox each morning
at wapo.st/haxpost. Join the discussion live at noon
Fr idays at live.washingtonpost.comAn estrangement spans generations
Carolyn
HaxNICK GALIFIANAKIS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST