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When your child's spouse controls family access

My son married someone I cannot stand who is rude to me and excludes me from family decisions and I have to pretend everything is fine to maintain access to my grandchildren.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The painful accommodation of being marginalized in your own family structure to preserve whatever relationship remains possible.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Launching adult children?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.