Dear Eric: My sister and her husband visit my area at least once a year. They presume they’re going to stay at my home with each visit. In turn, she expects my husband and me to visit her while we travel through her area. I can no longer do this.

She’s a loud, chaotic, and competitive narcissist, who I cringe being around. Her noise battery never runs out and the thin ice on our relationship is ready to crack. It’s taken me a lifetime to work through the scars created by her insecure, never-wrong, center-stage, toxic ego and I’m living my life no longer behind her. I’ve quietly and repeatedly tried to help, for I know she struggles with herself, but my attempts are fruitless.

For my own sanity, I won’t host her here any longer, or visit, but I don’t know how to approach this without her

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