Dear Queenie,
My wife’s sister was staying with us until we found out she was going out with a guy everyone knows is a drug dealer. We talked to her about this and asked her not to see him any more, but she is still going out with him, so we have asked her to leave.
Now my mother-in-law is mad at us and won’t talk to us because she doesn’t believe what we have told her about what my sister-in-law is doing.
Queenie, how can we make her understand why we did what we did? We want our children to see their grandmother.—Sad son-in-law
Dear Son-in-law,
Your mother-in-law does not want to believe what your sister-in-law is doing, so she takes out her vexation on you. Try to get back together with your mother-in-law without talking about what your sister-in-law is doing. Talk to her about what your children are doing and hope she will want to be a part of their lives.
