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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: What should I say tonight if she confronts me about avoiding her/not engaging? I think we are going to try to just get through this last night and make some adjustments about when we see her in the future. I just need a plan for what I say/do tonight. Should I say that I’m happy to discuss it in the morning, but I won’t be talking about it right now? Should I ask her husband in a nice way to intervene in the short term? [/quote]

Betty, you have a drinking problem and you're a mean drunk.  Leave my children alone or I will make Bob take you to a hotel for the night.  You can't control your liquor, but you better control your mouth.  Don't push me in my own house.[/quote]

[b]Or what??? OP is going to knock her SIL out?
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No. You don’t say this. As someone else pointed out, this just amps up the drama for the drunk and gives them attention. She will get to play the victim.

Instead disengage. Take the kids out. Pay her no mind. [/quote]

Reading is a problem for you.  The "or what?" was said above.  If she doesn't control her mouth and behavior, you make her husband take her to a hotel for the night.  I don't care if it is my brother-in-law and his wife, no one abuses my children in their home and stays.   Period.  If they don't want to stay in the future because of her drinking problem, so be it.  My spouse and brother-in-law can go visit with each other on neutral territory without the families.  I am fine if an abusive drunk never visits my house again.[/quote]

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