Hi, Carolyn: My sister-in-law lives 10 minutes away, never visits, shows no interest in our kids and doesn’t return my husband’s calls. That’s fine.
But when my in-laws visit the grandkids one weekend a month, she insists on being consulted and included in all plans. If we do something that doesn’t suit her — junior’s baseball game, dinner at a toddler-friendly hour — then she does not come or comes significantly late and wails that we “are kicking her out of her own family.”
