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Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you?

Good. What can I do for you?

Well, I just first of all, I just had a lovely experience with I'm guessing Dan or someone on your staff, he was wonderful and he gave me, you know, the opportunity to possibly use the sport gone as a solution, but I'm hoping maybe you have a better.

A better thing to tell me and I promise I'm going to try not to one of those annoying colors that always talks over you that has enough as a listener, so I'm going to try and not do that.

So I frequently listen to you, I actually discovered you when I was in college and you had your show, I used to watch you late at night, and I frequently listen to you when I think my dog for a walk, which I'm just about to do.

And a couple of colors ago, I think it was Jane was talking about her mother kind of fighting with her sister, and I've been wanting to call you, but that kind of really inspired me to actually dial the phone number, so I'm calling today because I am married, I've been married for 10 years, about to be 11 and we've been together 18.

My husband's mother frequently, she's widowed and she has a very aggressive sister, which would be my husband, Godmother.

My husband and she had a falling out because his Godmother has a special needs child and she is mirroring retirement and she was kind of trying to push this special needs child onto my husband's mother.

So he kind of objected to that, she retired from the teaching profession, she has a background in special education, and there's quite a distance like she, the Godmother was in the New York City area, she lives in the Syracuse area, and he wanted his mom to have the opportunity to enjoy retirement without having the burden of taking care of this, what would be her nephew.

So they had a falling out, now best word to, and this was a couple of years ago, and they have had a shaky relationship, my husband and his Godmother sinned.

Best word a couple of years, and my husband, grandmother died, which would be his mom's mother, his maternal grandmother, and we attended the funeral and before we got there, the Godmother had mentioned to his mom and to his uncle that we are not to bring any drama, there should not be any drama, and they always bring the drama.

So before we even showed up, we were warned not to address any family issues or whatever, not that we were even planning on it because we were there for a funeral and to pay our respects to my husband's grandmother.

So throughout this time that we're up there, the Godmother is absolutely nasty to my husband, and she is absolutely nasty to me, and not a single adult had anything to say, and we're talking about this is a very small funeral.

We're talking like 20 people, most of her friends and family have passed on at this point, so when it was such a confined environment, it was very obvious that she was being nasty to us, she wouldn't address us, she would introduce people around us, but not look at us. I went to go, past my respects to her, and she got up and walked away just definitely.

So best word to, we just went on a trip with my husband's mother, and I had pushed my husband to discuss this, and he's like, okay, let the dust settle after the funeral, and I'll get into this, you know, now it's an opportunity. Okay, fine.

So the dust has settled, and I've encouraged him several times to have a discussion with his mom about like the dynamics of this and how an appropriate she acted and that sort of, so then no discussion was ever had, and we went on vacation, and something just kind of got a little testy, and I said, okay, we need to have a full out discussion.

And I said, you know, I was really disappointed in your behavior when your sister was using some nasty to my husband and you and your brother just sat there and took it, and no one said anything, and we felt like you were in a box and you can't up for ourselves because you were already used to bringing the drama.

And to this she said, I love my sister and my son unconditionally, I won't get involved in this conflict, and I said, that's fine, that's your position, but when you are watching your sister treat someone like that, I don't think that that isn't acceptable.

So my question to you is, Dr. Laura was I in the wrong, and if so, or I don't know, I just kind of wanted to take.

Okay, thank you for being so clear.

First of all, your husband never should have gotten involved in who was going to take care of that special needs child, that was none of his business.

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