Dear Amy: My wife and I have been married for 21 years, and my in-laws have never treated me particularly nicely, much less as a member of the family.
My wife dreads seeing them, but fears angering her mother; I have tried to stay out of the way. Iâve seen this dynamic as the âprice of admissionâ for marrying my wife.
Since I come from a close, noisy, Jewish family, I had taken their approach to me as just a cultural difference, since theyâre Episcopalian and deal with each other differently.
In the last month, however, weâve seen them twice and I learned from our kids (19 and 15) that the kids donât like how their grandparents treat them.
Ask Amy advice column: sharing adult children s news with an ex-spouse; woman upset when people point at her and tell their small children she looks like their grandmother; reaction to
Ask Amy advice column: sharing adult children s news with an ex-spouse; woman upset when people point at her and tell their small children she looks like their grandmother; reaction to
Ask Amy advice column: sharing adult children s news with an ex-spouse; woman upset when people point at her and tell their small children she looks like their grandmother; reaction to
Dear Amy: I am a new mom with two 1-year-old babies.
My wife and I love being moms, but I am pretty heartsick that due to the pandemic, none of my family members have met our fast-growing babies in person.
For the first year, I took this in stride and assumed that visits would be possible in 2021 â after vaccinations.
We are an eight-hour flight away from our family, and driving is not possible.
I donât feel comfortable taking our unmasked babies on a long flight (safety-wise).
However, my family members are either unwilling to vaccinate, or are vaccinated, but with no plans to visit.