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YOUR PROBLEMS ANSWERED BY CLAUDETTE COLBERT
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Dear miss colbert:
Six years ago my husband died, leaving me with three small children to rear. At the time I was living in the same small town with my parents.
Three years ago I came to this much larger city, bringing my oldest child with me and leaving the two younger babies with their grandparents. I worked in the daytime and took up study of a trade by night.
I have now passed my examinations and I am ready to return to my home town to live. I have been offered a fine position there and I know I can do well and support my children.
However, I am only twenty-eight so I am in need of occasional recreation. My parents are angrily opposed to my having dates. They insist that since I have already been married and had children I no longer have the right to the company of a man.
Can you think of some manner in which I can live in the same town with them and stiff maintain my independence?
Noreen S. McC.
I agree with you that occasional recreation will be necessary for your mental health and, provided that your children are well cared for during your absence, I see no reason why you should not make your own decisions about escorts.
it is true that some parents never feel that a child is capable of making his own decisions even though he lives to be ninety. The only happy solution is that you refrain from discussion of the subject. Be firm, but loving and pleasant. You may find it necessary to refrain from all mention of your recreational activities.
It is likely that you will marry again. I feel that the restraining influence of your parents may be a very healthful thing. You will be very careful what sort of man you introduce to them as their next son-in-law.
Claudette Colbert
Dear Miss Colbert:
I am really in a jam. I am seventeen and having trouble with my boy friend who is nineteen.
While he was overseas he sent me a lot of presents and quite a large sum of money which he asked me to invest in War Bonds. I needed the money desperately so I spent it all. On my last birthday he sent me money to buy a cedar chest which we could use in our house eventually. I didn’t buy it because my room is so crowded as it is, but I did buy a wristwatch. When I told him about it he grew angry and said I wasn’t a girl to be trusted.
He came home on a thirty-day emergency furlough when his father passed away. At that time I kept things secret from him, but he’ll be back in the States again soon and then how should I tell him about his money?
I just don’t know what to do because I don’t seem to be able to think straight. I’ll do anything you say except drop him. Sally F.
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