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Question: Dear Luise: My husband’s grandmother is jealous of my relationship with his mom; her daughter! She hates me. She just told my MIL that I stole her away from her. I have been with my husband for 33 years… married 27 and his mother and I are best friends. We live in different states. [...]

Question: Dear Luise: Please help me. My son in law wanted money to pay down his mortgage and because I didn’t give it, my daughter does not talk to me and my grand children only call once in a while. I’m sick. I can’t eat or sleep. My mind is so confused. I don’t know [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I have 3 grown sons and 3 beautiful daughter-in-laws and a wonderful 2nd marriage. My sons lost their father from als 4 years ago.  My oldest son had shown signs of being greedy with family money when my mother died. She thought of my sons as hers.  No boundaries in our family!!  [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I am the mother of three adult children.  My daughter is the middle child and has been the source of many issues that have destroyed my relationship with my family.  Her drug rehab counselor told me that she is a master manipulator and I should never allow her to manipulate me.  Our [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I have an adult son who is engaged to a girl that we like and have made many extra efforts to show her how much we like her.  My son made plans w/us (mom, dad, sister and brother) to get together and he promised his sister he would take her senior pictures.  [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I am a 48 year-old married woman with a 19 year-old son in college. I am self-employed and my husband is active duty military. I have 4 sisters and I am the middle sibling (younger side.) My mother, who I love dearly and would not trade for the world…raised us to accept [...]

Question: Dear Luise: This is long. My 82 year old mother and I have a negative history but I’ve been her main support for the last 9 years.) She lives independently half a block from me. She was getting 100 a mo. from her sister, but her sister is no longer doing that and wants [...]

Question: Dear Luise: My daughter won’t let me see my grandchildren. Especially my eightyear-old grand son. She hates me and says I am unfit to see them; that she needs a psychiatric evaluation. Her mother in law is obsessed (and so is her husband) with my grandchildren and they have a right to see them [...]