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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I just got a racy birthday card in the mail at work, with a letter inside it from an old girlfriend! Her praise of my body and intelligence was extravagant — almost poetic — but it felt really good.

I took it home and showed the card and letter to my wife, to make her jealous, I admit. All she said was, “Perhaps your old girlfriend’s getting into the booze in her old age!” That made me really mad.

Now I suddenly want to call up my ex and go visit her for a weekend. (She lives in another province.) I doubt if my wife would even suspect anything, as I travel a lot for my work.

Plus, when it comes to our own sex life, it seems like my wife couldn’t care less about being with me anymore. My wife’s big excitement is going out with girlfriends and flying to concerts with them. Things have gotten so petty between us now that I wouldn’t mind the feeling of evening things up! Please advise.

BRANDON — Charges were stayed mid-trial for a man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in an abandoned house after the youth admitted during cross-examination she was lying about what happened.

Defence lawyer Bob Harrison peppered the 15-year-old victim with questions in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench on Monday, suggesting she feared getting in trouble if she now spoke the truth, despite previously telling police his client, 22, inappropriately touched her in a July 2024 incident.

The girl, who can’t be identified due to a publication ban, initially held firm in her testimony, saying, “No, he did touch me inappropriately,” before Harrison posed the question again, and she answered, “I can’t really understand.”

Harrison asked the question a third time, saying, “I’m going to suggest that you’re concerned that if you tell the truth that he didn’t touch you, that you may get in trouble. That’s the situation, isn’t it?”