Advice | Miss Manners: Your stepmother-in-law needs a handler.
She insists on trying to “help,” but her anxious nature only makes things more difficult. She comes up to me while I am rinsing dishes and loading the dishwasher, puts her face an inch or two from mine and asks how she can help. She doesn’t seem to understand that she is majorly intruding on my personal space while I am focused on a manual task involving splashing water and sharp utensils.
The other night, I was loading the dishwasher while she was sitting at the dining room table. She yelled my name from across the room and told me, at the top of her voice, to stop cleaning up because she was feeling guilty that she wasn’t helping.It all feels a bit rude, and it’s not pleasant to have a guest tell you what to do in your own home.
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