Ask Allison: My mother-in-law’s demands on my wife are causing such stress. Help me get through Christmas without exploding!

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Question: My mother-in-law is elderly and infirm and incapable of living on her own. But she refuses to admit it. She won’t have anyone into the house to help her. My wife is run ragged driving up and down the motorway to check in on her and has now taken to sleeping in the house with her two or three times a week.

My mother-in-law doesn’t seem to care one bit how this is affecting her children. My wife has three siblings but they are a very fractured family so a lot of it is falling to…

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