DEAR ERIC: I’m so enjoying reading your column! Thank you! The letter “Unhappy Holiday” was from the mother traveling to the UK to spend holidays with her husband’s family, who is distressed that her sister-in-law has planned an event with only her husband and child, not inviting the letter writer’s family, too.

I am getting snarky comments from my son and daughter-in-law about how quiet my friend was and how she didn’t fit in.