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Ask Amy: Wife is riding the tilt-a-whirl of husband’s addiction

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What can I do to make sure this is a good visit for everyone?

– Concerned Mom

Dear Mom: Instead of trying to make sure this is a “good visit for everyone,” I hope you will put all of your energy into simply being gently in the moment with your husband and children.

Your eldest, who gives the least, may actually need the most – but all of these adults must go through this at their own pace, and in their own way.

Do the family a favor and give your daughters’ partners some errands to run and household jobs to do during the visit. They can be genuinely useful to the family, while giving you and your daughters some time and space to be together.

Dear Amy: Your advice to “Bullet-proof’s Mom” was terrible. This spoiled 18-year-old was placing the entire household at risk by refusing to be vaccinated!

He should have been tossed from the house, immediately.

 

– Upset (at you!)

Dear Upset: But you’re wrong about that. The only real risk here was that the younger man might get sick, and that’s his risk to take.

Vaccinations will protect the rest of the household from more severe COVID symptoms.

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(You can email Amy Dickinson at askamy@amydickinson.com or send a letter to Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194, Freeville, NY 13068. You can also follow her on Twitter @askingamy or Facebook.)

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