Dear Eric: My son is 35 and his new girlfriend of three months is 32. They’re both very smart. They are both very well educated.

I really enjoy my time with her except for when she falls into these pits where she talks about him like he’s not there and puts him down. She says things like “Well, I told your son to do this and, of course, he didn’t” or “I told him this he didn’t think that was right and, of course, I was right, and he was wrong.” He laughs it off, she laughs it off, and I change the subject and laugh it off.

But it’s not funny to me. I have my own experience of living with a manipulative person who started small and grew, too. Basically, controlling my whole life.

She really likes me and aside from this I like her as well.

I don’t want to overstep my bounds at all. What

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