For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for June 22, 2021

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    bummer, Michael

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    LookingGlass Premium Member over 3 years ago

    “Love” is complicated, to say the least!!

    ;-)

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    Enter.Name.Here  over 3 years ago

    Trying to figure out women is like calculating PI to the last digit. There is no solution, there is no end.

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    howtheduck  over 3 years ago

    There is no need to figure out Martha. She’s pretty straight forward. She told Michael to his face that she did not like being ignored in favor of cars and Gordon. The real issue is getting Michael to listen to her and to have a real conversation with her instead of saying a few sentences and walking away.

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    Baarorso  over 3 years ago

    Mike, don’t worry about it. We males have tried to figure out our female counterparts for centuries, but haven’t reached any hard conclusions on how things work with them.;-D

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    JDP_Huntington Beach  over 3 years ago

    Mike obsesses over what he does not have.

    No license, fret, fret, fret, ignore the girl friend.

    Have a girl friend, ignore, ignore, ignore, what are the guy’s doing?

    Lose girl friend, stalk, obsess, and blather like an idiot…

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    dcandmx  over 3 years ago

    That’s the point Michael. Figure yourself out through your interactions & reactions to others. ‘What is this about me?’ Self knowledge is the basis of understanding others.

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    dcdete.  over 3 years ago

    Lynn Johnston is so insightful here. The comments in the first two panels are almost word for word the conversations I had with girls when I was a 16-year-old teen and just gotten my driver’s license! Except that the ‘Well, gotta go’ should be stretched out more with an awkward silence. “Welllll …. gotta go.”

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    Snolep  over 3 years ago

    And he didn’t even mention getting his driver’s license.

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    twoishi843  over 3 years ago

    Michael, 20/20 hindsight is just that, hindsight.

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    louchivegas  over 3 years ago

    THE WAY TO HANDLE A WOMAN IS TO SIMPLY LOVE HER

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    jango  over 3 years ago

    He’ll probably hit her car in the parking lot. Coincidence…or something more?!?!

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    Johnnyrico  over 3 years ago

    …….. Spoiler Alert…….. ……….. ………… ………. ………. Don’t worry Michael, Lynn already has a childhood sweetheart lined up for you to marry and then dump on….

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    DavidHewlett  over 3 years ago

    From what I remember from my teenage years, Mike is no different than most teenage boys. In fact, he was better than I was—I was lucky if I just got the word ‘Hi’ out let alone carry on any type of conversation ! ! Girls scared me ! ! !

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    dv1093  over 3 years ago

    It get a LOT worse when you’re in your twenties.

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    DawnQuinn1  over 3 years ago

    The book on understanding women has never been written and never will be,

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    BlitzMcD  over 3 years ago

    The Ames Brothers pretty much answered that question seventy years ago: “You promise to return, when you don’t, I really burn, well, I guess I never learn and I show it”. Some things never change…..

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    Cincoflex  over 3 years ago

    Trying to figure out men isn’t any easier.

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    rebelstrike0  over 3 years ago

    You need some discipline, Michael. Start focusing on sports, academics, and an extracurricular program like Scouting. After graduating, join the military.

    Remember, girls like successful men.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Just remember, life is not a bowl of cherries but eventually love is a many splendor thing!

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    The Martha MacRae Fan Club  over 3 years ago

    Michael, here’s the answer to all your “why?” questions: it’s because Martha is cute. She has a way of affecting you (and others).

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    sobrown51  over 3 years ago

    Heard a joke the other day. “The reason men don’t understand woman is because woman actually COME with instructions.”

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    summerdog  over 3 years ago

    I think he handled it very well for his first post-Martha meeting.

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    Ukko wilko  over 3 years ago

    For a teenager, Mike just had a cosmic revelation.

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    kamoolah  over 3 years ago

    As a woman, I can tell you Michael, that women like to be taken care of. There is no need to understand women after that. A fat wallet has plenty of sex appeal. You will also be in good with mothers of girls. Mothers want their daughter married off to successful men.

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    Orcatime  over 3 years ago

    And this is where teenagers get the clue that some adults do get them.

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    Tyge  over 3 years ago

    Martha’s leaning away posture in panel two shows she is not holding out hopes for a reconciliation.

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    christelisbetty  over 3 years ago

    Cheer up Mike, billions of people have survived being teen aged.

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    The_Great_Black President  over 3 years ago

    Michael sure ain’t a part of the Greatest Generation.

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    CoreyTaylor1  over 3 years ago

    She’s not worth it, Mike. She shafted you, then got dumped by El Jerko, so she got what she deserved. Just wait for Deanna.

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    BluNova  over 3 years ago

    I hope Elizabeth took a bus home and sends Mike into a panic.

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    raybarb44  over 3 years ago

    Stand in line Pal…..

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    Gordo4ever  over 3 years ago

    I find it best not to over think the mind of a woman. It is like string theory… somewhere, someone understands it… that person, however, is not me. (Thanks for the ‘insight’, BMc)

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    kaycstamper  over 3 years ago

    IDK, Michael, you have it bad!

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    Numbnumb  over 3 years ago

    Believe me if she wants you she will get you but you will never see it coming!

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    summerdog  over 3 years ago

    Martha has that bug antenna thing going on like Uncle Phil in panel two.

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