Dear Eric: My daughter Tess turned 40 years old last month. Hard to believe how time flies. My husband and I took her and her husband, Mack, and two children out for dinner on her birthday as we always do every year. A few weeks before this, Mack asked my husband if we would babysit on a day after the birthday dinner. My husband told me that Mack was taking Tess out after dinner. I thought OK, that’s nice that they will go out for her birthday.

But then I find out that Mack is planning a party at a bar/restaurant and has invited his entire large family – mom and dad, aunts, uncles and cousins.

Tess said we could come for one drink, but then the kids would have to go home to go to bed. She also said she did not invite her aunt (her father’s sister) because we would not be there, and they

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