Dear Abby: My boyfriend gossips about me with everyone even his mother!

DEAR ABBY: I’ve been dating a guy off and on for the past seven years.“Giorgio” is a wonderful person and will do just about anything for me.

The problems are that he doesn’t have much to offer, and he talks too much.He shares a great deal of our private business to family and friends, especially his mother.She’ll ask him several questions about me and then make snide comments in return.

I have spoken to him more than once about this, to no avail.Giorgio knows I don’t want him, but I can’t get rid of him.

Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated.— SEVEN-YEAR ITCH IN GEORGIADEAR SEVEN-YEAR ITCH: If you are aware of the snide comments Giorgio’s mother has been making, it must be because Giorgio has passed them along to you.

(Has he no brains at all?) Her attitude about you would erode your relationship with her son, even if you chose to continue it. I don’t know why you can’t get rid of Giorgio, but try this: Tell him you no longer want to see him and no longer want to be friends.Unless you do, the message won’t get across.

If he persists, warn him that if he doesn’t go away, you will file a police report because at that point what he is doing will be considered stalking.Then do it, if necessary.DEAR ABBY: My husband retired three weeks ago, and he has been driving me crazy ever since.

I’m a night owl, and he’s known it since we met 10 years ago.Today, he told me he’d be playing golf with an old friend tomorrow at 8:30 a.m.

at a course 45 minutes away and needed to get up at 6 a.m. I asked if he could be extra quiet in the morning and use the guest bathroom to shower so he wouldn’t wake me an hour early.He huffily put his towel and shampoo in the guest shower, stomped back to his easy chair and plopped down heavily.

When I asked him what was wrong, he said he was annoyed that he couldn’t take his shower in our regular bathroom.I said I was annoyed that it would make me lose an hour of sleep before working a...