My husband is cruel, gets his kicks by embarrassing me in public
DEAR ABBY: I’ve been married for 49 years, and of course, we’ve had our ups and downs. Recently, my husband, “Sid,” made some comments that have been bothering me.
The other day at the store, while I was talking and gesturing with my hands, a woman walked down the aisle. Sid jokingly said to her, “Watch out! She’s mean! She’s violent!”
On another occasion, he told a cashier, “Watch out! She’s dangerous! She’ll steal something! She’s a shoplifter.” Later, in the car, he criticized me for buying cookies: “Man, why did you buy more cookies? You’ve eaten that whole pack already!”
When I bring these things up, he says, “You’re just like your mother,” which makes me cry on the way home. The next day, I told him how much this hurts my feelings. His response was, “You’ve always been too sensitive. You need to just get over it.”
I don’t know how to respond to all this teasing and “poking.”
— NO FUN IN FLORIDA
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