I remember one column where a young wife was married to a police officer. He put his service revolver in the closet (they had no children) and the gun scared her. Abby told her to remove the bullets without telling her husband that way she could relax and her husband wouldn't be the wiser. Wonder if he survived his service with the department.
Dear Abby, and her sister Ann Landers, were both proponents of the one piece of advice I ever took from their columns...and in this Eccie world, this piece of advice is especially relevant:
No one can take advantage of you........without your permission.