Dear Queenie,
My sister is divorced, has two children, doesn’t have a job, has been in drug rehab and keeps getting in trouble. She says she is trying to do better, but nothing ever changes.
I have tried to help her but she lies and gets in trouble again.
Queenie, what more can I do?—Fed-up sister
Dear Sister,
There is not much you can do for your sister until she actually starts trying to do better.
Spend whatever time you can with her children – take them out, help them with their homework, cook a meal for them, things like that. It will give them some stability and you will be a good role model for them, which their mother is not.
