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.
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