WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2021 • COMMERCIAL-NEWS A7 COMICS MARMADUKE HERMAN Setting Ground Rules with Sister-In-Law Dear Annie: My sister- together, and I can hear the in-law has been living with resentment brewing. Rather her parents for over a year, than letting this boil over, let after her college graduation ceremony was canceled cooler heads prevail. because of COVID-19. My If you don’t think you and wife and sister-in-law don’t your wife will be happy with get along well with their your sister-in-law living with parents, so she’s been very ANNIE LANE unhappy there. DEAR ANNIE you, then don’t live together. We invited her to our You can still be close -- from wedding last November. It Since then, we have not had a distance. And if, after some was just the three of us, and any communication with her. time apart, she has a steady she acted as our officiant. We found an apartment job and is respectful to you After the ceremony, she without her. Now their threw a temper tantrum. We parents are ready to kick her and your wife, then I’m all ended up having to cancel out, as they want to move to for helping family out our dinner plans and go a different state and temporarily. But if she acts REALITY CHECK MODERATELY CONFUSED straight back to the hotel. downsize to a home for just entitled and does not take After the wedding, our plan the two of them. Should we was for the three of us to reach out and open our accountability for her find an apartment and live apartment to her? -- Never actions, then show her some together. We supported her in Had a Honeymoon Phase tough love and let her find a getting her driver’s license, Because of Sister-in-Law place on her own. Whichever by riding around with her so Dear No Honeymoon you choose, set some ground she could get driving Phase: Your sister-in-law practice. We pushed her to sounds like she is going rules from the beginning. find a job she claims to love. through a pre-adult-life crisis. “Ask Me Anything: A Year We tried to help her, while The best thing you can do of Advice From Dear Annie” she complained about for her is to be straight with is out now! Annie Lane’s “adulting.” her and keep the lines of Three days before my communication open -- and debut book -- featuring birthday in January, out of not just with text or email. favorite columns on love, the blue, she sent me several Instead of your wife talking friendship, family and long hurtful text messages. to her, consider approaching etiquette -- is available as a She told me everything she her directly about her paperback and e-book. Visit doesn’t like about me. A lot messages. of what she said about me When people are unhappy, http://www. wasn’t even true, and I’m not they lash out at the ones they creatorspublishing.com for FRANK & ERNEST sure where she got it from. love the most. While it is more information. Send your My wife confronted her, and certainly hurtful, questions for Annie Lane to she said it’s not her fault understanding this can allow because she was just writing you to see your sister-in-law [email protected] . her thoughts and didn’t mean with more compassion. COPYRIGHT 2021 to send them. You’ve been through a lot CREATORS.COM

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