Dear Queenie,
My parents have always favoured my younger brother over me. When I finished high school they told me to get a job. When he finished high school they paid for him to go on to university and they pay for everything for him.
When I started dating a woman they didn’t like they kicked me out, so I moved in with her and my parents got mad because we are “living in sin,” but they let my brother and his fiancée live with them – supposedly in separate bedrooms, but what do my parents think the two of them are doing when they aren’t home?
Queenie, my fiancée and I are getting married later this year. Should I invite my parents to the wedding?—Offended son
Dear Son,
Please invite your parents to the wedding. They may relax their attitude once you have made things “legal.”
Regarding their apparent favouritism, have you tried to talk to them about it? Perhaps doing so, maybe with the help of a neutral person as “mediator,” can make them understand how you feel about this.
