DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been married for 35 years. He has a 42-year-old daughter from a previous marriage. She has been married twice and has three sons. She forced her second husband to pay for her college education, and then she dumped him.
Now this daughter is ready for graduate school and has dropped several hints that we should pay for it. My husband is 62 and retired. I run a home-based sewing business so we don't have to dip into our savings to supplement our limited income. Yet this middle-aged daughter thinks WE should pay for her education.
Abby, what should my response be in this situation? -- ON PINS AND NEEDLES IN WASHINGTON STATE
DEAR ON PINS AND NEEDLES: Tell her no, and if she asks why, don't embroider the truth -- simply say, "We can't afford it."