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Dear Annie: I try to be a good daughter, buy my elderly father’s anxiety is exhausting
Dear Annie: I try to be a good daughter, buy my elderly father’s anxiety is exhausting
Dear Annie: I try to be a good daughter, buy my elderly father’s anxiety is exhausting

Published on: 08/20/2025

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He lives four hours away, and I have learned to avoid telling him when I’m driving up for a visit. Getty Images

Dear Annie: My father has always been a deeply anxious man. If there is nothing to worry about, he invents something. Growing up, this often meant high-stress evenings when my siblings or I were out with friends or running late. I still remember one night when my dad woke my mother in a panic, convinced my brother had been in an accident. She calmly asked what time he was due home. “Midnight,” he said. It was only 10:30 p.m.

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