DEAR ABBY,

[Dover]

DEAR ABBY,

My husband has a long record of money problems. He runs up huge credit
card bills and at the end of the month, if I try to pay them off, he
shouts at me, saying I am stealing his money. He says pay the minimum
and let our kids worry about the rest, but already we can hardly keep up
with the interest. Also he has been so arrogant and abusive toward our
neighbors that most of them no longer speak to us. The few that do are
an odd bunch, to whom he has been giving a lot of expensive gifts,
running up our bills even more.
Also, he has gotten religious in a big way, although I don't quite
understand it. One week he hangs out with Catholics and the next with
people who say the Pope is the Anti-Christ. And now he has been going to
the gym an awful lot and is into wearing uniforms and cowboy outfits,
and I hate to think what that means. Finally, the last straw. He's
demanding thatbefore anyone can be in the same room with him, they must
sign a loyalty oath. It's just so horribly creepy! Can you help?

Signed,
Lost in DC


Dear Lost:
Stop whining, Laura. You can divorce the jerk any time you want. The
rest of us are stuck with him for four more years!