What to do over her black and blue?

Dear Diane: I am a single, 25-year-old woman in a committed relationship. My boyfriend, “Allen,” and I have been living together for nearly two years, and I couldn’t be happier.

Allen is loving, gentle and considerate, a good man, and my soulmate. In the five years we’ve known each other, Allen and I have never gotten into a fight.

Here’s the problem: I bruise easily. All I need to do is brush up against something with slightest bit of pressure and I get a black-and-blue mark.

The women in my office often notice me coming in to work sporting a bruise on my arm or leg and begin asking very personal questions, as well as making some very hurtful accusations toward Allen.

To a person they are all under the impression that I am in an abusive relationship. Diane, nothing could be further from the truth.

I’ve tried to get it into their prying minds that Allen wouldn’t hurt a fly, let alone me; but these cackling hens are convinced I’m in “denial” and am an “enabler.”

What can I do to put an end to this madness? — Seeing Red Over Black & Blue

Dear Seeing Red: Not much, I’m afraid. These chuckleheads in your office have watched too much of that idiot Dr. Phil and think they are qualified to make judgments and diagnoses of your relationship. They are also insufferable gossips.

About the only thing you can do is get bruised on purpose in their presence to prove once and for all how easily you can be bruised. But even then I don’t think you will convince all of them. They obviously have no lives are quite content with manufacturing drama about yours.

Maybe one of my readers has been in a similar situation and can offer some advice.