Dear Abby: My son and his wife wont speak to me because I gave them COVID

DEAR ABBY: My girlfriend, whom I have known for many years, remarried her ex-husband a few years ago.I didn’t know her when she was married to him the first time. My husband and I don’t like him.

The last time we met for lunch, her husband showed my husband a gun he was carrying in his pocket!Abby, he’s an elderly man with a tremor in his hands.She keeps emailing me about the four of us meeting again, and we are both scared to meet them since he’s armed and has that tremor.We are afraid it could accidentally go off and shoot one of us.

I don’t know what to tell her.Any advice? — FRIGHTENED IN TEXASDEAR FRIGHTENED: Keep in mind that carrying a gun is legal in Texas.

Also, many guns have safety devices so they don’t fire accidentally.There is a difference between not liking someone and being afraid of socializing with an armed person.You don’t have to sacrifice your long friendship with this woman.If you don’t want to see them as a couple, get together with her separately.DEAR ABBY: My son and his wife have quit speaking to my husband and me because I gave them COVID.At their invitation, we took a trip with them to Hawaii.

I began feeling ill on the plane and tested positive the next day.A couple days later, my son got sick, and then a few days later, his wife got it.I told them repeatedly how sorry I was that I’d infected them and spoiled their vacation. We always had a close relationship — frequent phone calls, visits, dinners, etc.

— but for the last six weeks, nothing.He told his brother he was furious because I tried to “kill” them.

I’m at a loss about what to do, if anything.What would Dear Abby do? — GUILTY IN CALIFORNIADEAR GUILTY: What Dear Abby would do is give your son some time to cool off and then reach out and apologize again.He needs to grow up.

You didn’t make anyone sick on purpose, and it just as easily could have been your son or daughter-in-law infecting you.DEAR ABBY: I have been in love with a man for mo...