The first priority must be the safety of the most vulnerable – your mother and your sister’s children
• Every week Annalisa Barbieri addresses a problem sent in by a reader
I’m a 40-year-old man and worried about my family. Since my sister (in her late 30s) became pregnant with her first child four years ago, there hasn’t been a period longer than a week without her and my mother getting into toxic fights.
A couple of days ago, after my sister had resorted (yet again) to calling our mother names, she also ended up grabbing her by the throat.
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