In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a wife whose husband died and then waited five days to tell her rude mother-in-law the news.
In today's Miss Manners column, advice columnist Judith Martin responds to a wife whose husband died and then waited five days to tell her rude mother-in-law the news.
Last month, we were vacationing in Sri Lanka when he died suddenly in his sleep. Of course I cut the trip short, but even so, it took five days for me to get home. Those days were spent complying with local legalities, arranging for him to be cremated and for his ashes to be returned to the States, and rebooking an international flight.
His mother is absolutely livid with me for not telling her for five days. She wrote me a vicious email in which she called me every bad name in the book and even hinted that I may have had something to do with his demise.
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