Dear Abby: Wife’s mentally ill son in Canada is holding our lives hostage
A reader says her adult son in Canada refuses treatment or work and is emotionally punishing his mother after she moved to the U.S.
DEAR ABBY: My wife recently immigrated to our current residence in the U.S. from Canada. She has a 23-year-old son dealing with mental illness back in Canada. He refuses to remain in therapy or to hold a steady job, and he failed out of university.
My wife consistently lowers her expectations and continues to support him. As a result, he has grown comfortable with emotionally manipulating everyone in his family while wallowing in self-pity.