How long should the sister-in-law stay?
Thanks for calling me on getting straight with the wife first. Funny how everyone picked up on it! We talked and agreed and she’s doing the talking to SIL as we type. Turns out neither of us had been super-explicit about boundaries for this trip. I wrote SIL a short list of 6 tasks I’d like help with (nothing big or dangerous – “make the kids’ lunches”, “put the dishes in the dishwasher”, “bake cookies for kids”, “run some loads of laundry”). No actions yet, but at least she knows what she could do, if she wanted. We’ll see if she gets around to any of them in the next week. She’s been sick with a headcold, and noticing that it’s super hard to get any medical care with no W-2, no job, no insurance, no pay stub from the last 2 years… even the free clinics want some evidence of job hunting. She’s just … nearly sociopathic in being unable to pick up on social cues or obligations (as noted by friends meeting her at gatherings we held last year). SIL’s total assets are $1000, her laptop
