DEAR ABBY: After reading the letters about the elderly widower whose daughters drove away his second wife and thwarted his subsequent attempts to find love, I offer some suggestions:
1. Rather than telling his daughters to take a flying leap or rewriting his will, he should pick up the phone and call his daughters every day. If they're not home, he should call again and demand to know where they were.
2. Call them several other times a day just to tell them how lonesome he is.
3. Tell them how much he misses their mother -- and whine.
4. Try the phrase, "I don't want to worry you, but ..." and complain he's not feeling well, making sure to fully describe every ache and pain.
5. Invite them to his house, saying he needs their help with something -- and whine some more.
6. Drop by for meals unannounced. Better still, stop by any time of day or night and hang around, making a nuisance of himself.
7. Be sure to criticize their housekeeping, child-rearing and anything else he can think of.
If he does this often enough, he'll make them wish he WOULD remarry. -- ANN RIDDELL, PORTLAND, ORE.
DEAR ANN: You're a clever psychologist. If Dad were to become unrelentingly needy and demanding, his self-centered daughters would probably waste no time in distancing themselves.