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Dear Care and Feeding,

Throughout my engagement, people joked about how I’d lucked out in the mother-in-law department because my husband’s mother was extremely chill and not obsessed with the idea of grandkids. My husband and I are dedicated to being child-free (he got the snip in college), and it was a relief to us both that his mother was fine with that.

I never expected that the problem would be with my (younger) sisters-in-law!

They constantly bring up the subject! I have deflected, defended, and tried to change the subject, but I finally lost my cool when the youngest called me “unnatural” and said her brother would regret marrying me and not a woman who would giv

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