DEAR ERIC: I have been married for 36 years, and my husband has a daughter from a previous marriage. I don’t consider her as a stepdaughter because I have had no part of her upbringing, and she has never liked me. She used to be a caring and nurturing person. Now she has become rude and spiteful.

My husband wasn’t allowed to meet her until she was nine, and I met her when she was 12. She is in her mid-40s now and has two young adult children whom I adore; they call me Grandma.

They live three hours away, but we can no longer travel because I am disabled and no longer drive, and my husband is terminally ill. When they do visit us (very occasionally) she continuously makes very nasty comments to me. I don’t enjoy the visits anymore and I have to remove everything from my bathroom and lock

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