Asking Eric: My in-laws went from bad to worse in their treatment of us

Dear Eric: My mother-in-law and father-in-law won two prizes in a raffle one Christmas. We were shown these prizes. Twelve months later, we traveled 2,500 miles to visit them for Christmas again. On Christmas morning, my husband and I received these raffle prizes for Christmas presents. We don’t believe they had forgotten that they had shown us the duffle bag and cheap towels the previous year.

I could write a book regaling you with the number of times we have been subjected to passive-aggressive swipes, stories of how my husband’s sister is getting a new this or that; or a bigger house, a new car, or that they are earning “lots of money.”