Dear Eric: My son is 35, and his new girlfriend of three months is 32. They’re both very smart and well-educated. I enjoy my time with her except when she talks about him like he’s not there and puts him down. She says things like, “Well, I told your son to do this and, of course, he didn’t” or “I told him this, he didn’t think that was right, and, of course, I was right, and he was wrong.” He laughs it off, she laughs it off, and I change the subject and laugh it off.

But it’s not funny to me. I have my own experience of living with a manipulative person who started small and grew, basically controlling my whole life. She really likes me, and aside from this, I like her as well. I don’t want to overstep my bounds at all. What should I do? I’m just uncomfortable with it and I don’t know w

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