Dear Abby advises a woman dealing with toxic in-laws and a mom who needs some alone time.
I was never close to my late husband’s family. He had two half-siblings from his mother and seven from his father. At his funeral, his sister on his mother’s side wore what appeared to be a white wedding dress and had her three daughters dressed like flower girls. She had threatened me often with violence and stalked me at my job. I got a protective order, but it took three filings to get it because her father has friends in the court system.
Should I feel guilty for not sharing his remains, or feel good for carrying out his last wishes? The family says we should be working “together,” but I never even met some of them until he had passed away. They think we should be family since he was their brother. I disagree. —Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your husband. The time for you all to have “been family” was long before his death.
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