D EAR AUNTY PAM: My wife’s mother is coming to stay with us soon for a couple of weeks, and I’m already dreading it because she is the Queen of Pumpkin Spice. She’s really into baking and this time of year, she brings all this stuff she’s made with pumpkin spice, and I can’t stand it. She makes pumpkin spice bread, muffins, cakes and puts pumpkin spice creamer in her coffee. My wife is diabetic and can’t eat any of that stuff, so it falls on me to eat it. Even though I’ve asked my wife to tell her mom I don’t want it, she says she doesn’t want to “break her heart because she’s spent hours baking” just for me.

What can I do? I can handle nibbling a little bit of a muffin, but she stands over me and orders me to eat it all because she says she’s on a mission to fatten me up. She doesn’t g

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