The 11 step guide to being a good guest. The Guardian.
Being a good guest starts before you arrive. Reply to any invitation as promptly as you can. (If you can’t accept, say so early.) The answer to…
Things are tense with my in-laws but my husband won’t stick up for me. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My husband is southern-European and our parents live abroad. Shortly after our eldest was born, my mother-in-law attacked me verbally about how I was…
My sister-in-law says she doesn’t love me and I’ll never be family. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa I have been married for 10 years and we have one daughter. My husband and I are different nationalities. In the past, I have…
Keep out! This is our family Christmas. The Guardian.
It starts, every year, about October time – the pained looks of friends as they ask what we are doing at Christmas and reveal they are…
I feel duty bound to spend Christmas with my mother. But I don’t want to. The Guardian.
Dear Annalisa My relationship with my brother (my only sibling) has deteriorated to the point where I want no more contact with him. This causes my…
Jobless down, turkeys up. PM relishes his Christmas bounce. The Week.
IT WAS a festive Prime Minister’s Questions today; the last one before the right honourables break up for Christmas and the atmosphere in the Commons was…
“My daughter says she’s not inviting us for Christmas.” Published in The Guardian
I love my daughter very much and thought we were close. Some years ago we gave her financial help, bought her family a car and helped…
Annalisa Barbieri 