Ask Amy: Non-vaxxed neighbor considers options
Where I live, currently cases are way up and hospitalizations are down. But getting sick from this virus can have a huge impact on people who get it (and vaccinated people do get it). The symptoms can be lingering and severe, and they (and family members) will be forced to quarantine.
Whether you wish to attempt to continue on in friendship with these neighbors is up to you. But honesty is a necessary aspect of friendship, and so you should disclose your vaccination status, and give them the opportunity to reconsider in-person contact.
Given that you haven’t disclosed something obviously very important to them, they may reconsider having a friendship with you, and you should prepare yourself for that.
Dear Amy: Our granddaughter has a 5-year-old daughter whose father, “W,” was convicted of a felony involving a gun. He was a previous felon.
W has been in and out of my great-granddaughter’s life for the past five years. He is now facing some serious jail time.
W’s mother and his sister have been involved with our great-granddaughter and have been consistently in her life.
What is the best way for our granddaughter to deal with her child’s grandmother and aunt when it comes to the child visiting them?
My granddaughter doesn’t want her daughter going to jail to visit, nor does she want her to talk to W on the phone, because the child becomes too emotional.
I asked her to see a counselor, but she says she cannot afford one.
I think it would be good for the child to continue to have contact with her father’s family members.
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