Dear Abby: My cheating ex-husband died — am I wrong for skipping his funeral?

Nypost · Aug 02, 2026 · 579 words · By Dear Abby

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What to know about Dear Abby: My cheating ex-husband died — am I wrong for skipping his funeral?

DEAR ABBY: After a nearly 20-year marriage, my first husband, “Lloyd,” told me his feelings for me had changed.

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What happened

DEAR ABBY: After a nearly 20-year marriage, my first husband, “Lloyd,” told me his feelings for me had changed.

Why it matters

He said we needed “some time apart,” but he didn’t want a divorce.

Common ground

He immediately went to a lawyer and executed a financial settlement for me, still insisting he wasn’t going to file for divorce.

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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Claim 1: “Contact Dear Abby at DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069”

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While the contact information is repeated multiple times in the provided evidence, all instances come from the same source organization (Nypost). The Wikipedia result provided is for 'Ask Ann Landers' and does not provide contact info for Dear Abby, meaning there is no second independent source to corroborate the specific address and URL.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated adv…
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Claim 2: “Dear Abby... was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips”

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Wikipedia directly states that Dear Abby was founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips. This is also corroborated by multiple cross-references from the NY Post.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jeanne Phillips ( JEE-nee; born 1942), also known as Abigail Van Buren, is an American advice columnist who wrote for the advice column Dear Abby from the 1980s to July 2026. She was born in Minneapol…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pauline Esther Phillips (née Friedman; July 4, 1918 – January 16, 2013), also known as Abigail Van Buren, was an American advice columnist and radio show host who began the well-known Dear Abby newsp…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dear Abby is an American advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name "Abigail Van Buren" and carried on till July 2026 by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal…
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Claim 3: “Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that the column was carried on by Jeanne Phillips, who owns the legal rights to the pen name Abigail Van Buren. This is further supported by multiple cross-references from the NY Post.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Wendie Malick (born December 13, 1950) is an American actress and former fashion model, known for her roles in various television comedies. She starred as Judith Tupper Stone in the HBO sitcom Dream O…
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