Reader is annoyed by electrician but can’t afford to lose him. Dear Abby: I am a widow of two decades who has raised a family in an old historic home in a small island town. In the course of renovating and maintaining the home, a father-and-son electrician team have been like family.

(He) has started making phone calls, invitations to lunch or cocktails and professions of having harbored “secret fantasies” while working for me throughout the years.