I Came Home From Work to Find Six of My Husband’s Relatives Waiting for Dinner

fundamental dynamic. Not the expectation that my home was available on demand to whoever his family decided to send.

“Are they staying here?” I asked.

“Just the weekend. They don’t want to be any trouble.”

That phrase. That specific phrase. The one always deployed by people in the process of being tremendous trouble.

I said I’d like us to have a real conversation continue reading …