Dear Eric: My sister and her husband visit my area at least once a year. They presume they’re going to stay at my home with each visit. In turn, she expects my husband and I to visit her while we travel through her area.

I can no longer do this.

She’s a loud, chaotic and competitive narcissist, who I cringe being around. Her noise battery never runs out and the thin ice on our relationship is ready to crack.

It’s taken me a lifetime to work through the scars created by her insecure, never wrong, center stage, toxic ego and I’m living my life no longer behind her.

I’ve quietly and repeatedly tried to help, for I know she struggles with herself, but my attempts are fruitless.

For my own sanity, I won’t host her here any longer, or visit, but I don’t know how to approach this without her

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