Dear Eric: I’m a newly married 69-year-old woman who was previously a widow after 43 years of marriage. My present husband and I have been married for a little over a year. We dated in high school and coincidentally ended up together.

Prior to getting married, my husband never mentioned he wanted to go on an African safari with his adult son, and now it has come up frequently. I have made it clear it upsets me that he wants to do this, travel without me, and I am not paying for this adventure. Why would I not be included? But I don’t desire to go on an African safari either.

I don’t understand it — this wanting to be away from me for that long. It hurts me deeply that they didn’t do this stuff all those years when he was single. Now he’s retired, so possibly that’s why his son has come u

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