Help! My Mother-in-Law Did Something Utterly Unforgivable. But My Wife Still Wants Her at Thanksgiving.

"A month ago, my wife's sister "Simone" caught their mother in bed with her husband. Needless to say, Simone is going through a very difficult time in the wake of this double betrayal. The thing is, my wife wants to invite my MIL for Thanksgiving (she's never really gotten along with her sister and thinks the entire thing is funny)."

"I love my boyfriend, and he is an easy going and friendly guy. He can sit down at a bar and make lifelong friends in an hour. He has never had a bad break up in his life-even with his ex-fiancée! They dated from high school to college, and she got cold feet after the engagement so they talked and talked and talked and postponed the wedding until after grad school. She came out as a lesbian. He was her best man."

A husband discovers his mother-in-law in bed with his sister's husband and feels disgusted; he wants to ban the mother-in-law from Thanksgiving. The advice given is to let the wife decide, keep the conflict among the directly affected parties, and distance oneself from the messy family dynamic. Submission guidelines request short questions (<150 words), warn against multiple submissions, and note possible publication and editing. A correspondent describes a boyfriend with easygoing charm, an ex-fiancée who became a lesbian after postponing a wedding, and a narrator whose mother had an affair with her boss, which affected the narrator's employment.

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