Cutting off dad gave me peace. But sister has questions. Hax readers give advice.

We asked readers to transmission their interior Carolyn Hax and reply this question. Some of the champion responses are below.

Dear Carolyn: In 2010, my divorced begetter joined a difficult, judgmental, mean pistillate (with 2 daughters who instrumentality close aft her). She ne'er wants america astatine their house, particularly not for holidays. Ninety percent of the clip they no-show our invites due to the fact that she didn’t consciousness good astatine the past minute.