Dear Care and Feeding: I Can’t Believe the Update My Mom Included in Her Christmas Letter

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Dear Care and Feeding: I Can’t Believe the Update My Mom Included in Her Christmas Letter
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What she did was such an incredible violation of our privacy.

Every December, my mother, who is in her 70s, starts talking about one of her pet peeves: when people send out Christmas letters and include updates on their grown children or grandchildren. “They’re not part of the immediate family, so why are they broadcasting news about them?” And yet, this year, she devoted a paragraph inChristmas letter to my 17-year-old son, who has been fighting a life-threatening illness since he was 10.

She sent me a text the next day asking a benign question about a recipe she’d sent me–to which I replied, “No. Did you ever get a chance to read my email from yesterday?” Her reply was one word: “Yes.” I haven’t heard from her since. Am I wrong for expecting her to address my concerns?So often people write in demanding to know if they are wrong to expect others to behave differently—to behave the way they want them to.

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