"My Mother-in-Law Keeps Calling Us to Help Every Weekend: At 35, I Deserve to Live My Own Life"

“My Mother-in-Law Keeps Calling Us to Help Every Weekend: At 35, I Deserve to Live My Own Life”

For the past 10 years of my marriage, I’ve tried to build a good relationship with my mother-in-law. Ever since we moved from a small town to the city, she constantly calls us, asking my husband and me to come over and help her every weekend. Refusing to help feels wrong, so we always end up going. We clean, cook, do laundry, and take care of her household. The problem is that besides my