Dear Abby: Our son doesn’t want to visit his grandmother unless we’re with him

DEAR ABBY: My mother-in-law drives me bonkers. It started when our son (her only grandchild) was born. She is obsessed with him. We live in different states, and during our most recent visit there, she kept pressuring my son to come back on his own for two or three weeks. She constantly voices her opinions loudly in his presence, whether they are about schools we are considering, extracurricular activities, etc., and she is nasty about things she doesn’t agree with. She also interrupts everyone and has no interest in anything that may be important to others if it doesn’t have an impact on her. An example: I was asked to lead a local nonprofit organization. She promptly sneered about the organization, offering not one word of support.

I would be happy to never see her again while still enc