Dear Annie:

Hoping you can offer some advice! My son has been married for six years to a beautiful girl who rarely speaks to us and acts as though we don’t exist. Her distance has gotten much worse over time, and we have no idea why. We love her and are just as kind to her as we are to our other kids and their wives. My husband and I are so sad. This has broken our hearts.

We haven’t said anything because we don’t want to upset our son, but lately even he appears unhappy with her attitude toward us. When we’ve referred to her as our daughter—as we do our other daughter-in-law, who loves the title—she’ll say, “No, thank you. I already have a mom and dad.” We’ve always felt as parents ourselves that you can NEVER have too many people to love your child, so we were quite hurt by that.

And

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