Advice: “Eco-Grandma” feels as if she has no choice but to stay quiet as her son’s wife buys useless plastic.
My older son is on his second marriage and is with a loving woman, and, together, they have four daughters. I’m happy for him, but my daughter-in-law is constantly buying things — and never lets go of anything. Her mother also arrives with bags full of “bargain” clothes and toys. Their house is full to bursting, and the stuff just keeps coming. Obviously, I have to keep quiet about it, though I feel sick every time a new piece of plastic gets added to the pile, which is pretty much daily.
I don’t like that answer, either. It feels like pro-evil permission for good men to do nothing. But what good people “do” is as much a practical issue as a moral one, because whatever you do has to work. Beyond that, though, it is reasonable to expect that one thin-skinned, autonomous adult far gone on the idea that stuff equals love will neither respond even to gentle reason nor, fortunately, destroy the Earth on her own. So you can keep backing off without guilt.
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