"DEAR ABBY: I am a senior man living next door to a slightly older woman. We live in lakefront homes and enjoy being active in the water during our retirement years. Recently, I was looking out the window and saw an alligator swimming by about 50 yards away. Alligators are almost unknown in our part of the lake, but they are known to live in the area."
"Please advise. VIGILANT IN TEXAS DEAR VIGILANT: Which is more important? Your neighbor's life or her swimming? If you don't warn her about what you saw, and she loses a toe, a foot, an arm or her life, how will you feel then? Please speak up! P.S. Do you plan to continue swimming where there are alligators? Think! You could be bitten, too."
A senior man living next door to a slightly older woman saw an alligator about 50 yards from their lakefront homes and worries whether to warn her because it may ruin her enjoyment of swimming. The man fears that telling her could cause so much fear she may never swim again, but also fears endangering her by staying silent. The advice given is to warn her and prioritize her life and safety over her swimming pleasure, and to reconsider swimming where alligators are present. Separately, a couple married 56 years reports constant quarrels, resentment, hurt feelings and a search for a mediator rather than a therapist, but they have only found therapists specializing in other issues.
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