DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother-in-law is a very outgoing person. She is also an addict. ...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother-in-law is a very outgoing person. She is also an addict.
We do care about her, but we also know that enabling her addictions would be the worst possible thing for her, and for us. We will help her with necessities in an emergency, and we give her generous gifts for holidays and special occasions, but we also do a whole lot of saying “no” to outrageous demands. She blames me for this, though I tend to be more generous than her son is, since he carries a good amount more resentment toward her.
She complains about me to her friends, and I am bombarded with phone calls from relative strangers who accuse me of heartlessness and heap on the guilt. GENTLE READER: By coldly informing them that they have their facts wrong, explaining that you now have to go -- and quietly hanging up.
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