Dear John, my mother accused me of failing to keep relationships with my relatives. She knows I am an introvert and hate calling people up just for the sake of it. But she just keeps forcing me and I hate it. My point it, my mum asks me to call her sister up all the time. Its ok, but that particular one picks up a fight about how careless, stubborn or hopeless I am. I am a married woman and I am not entitled to listen to crap. And she never never calls me but I am forced to call her every weekend. What should I do?

Dear AshleyMaycury ,

You should stand your ground. If you don't want to call your relatives, you shouldn't have to. If your relatives don't appreciate your phone calls that you don't want to make in the first place, you don't have any obligations to continue with them. You could try talking to your mum about it and see if you can come to an agreement about it. If she doesn't want to come to an agreement, you could simply stop with the calls anyway.

Don't let your family push you around, but don't start any unnecessary rifts between certain relatives. Families are not perfect.

I hope you get things sorted out!