My sister-in-law took in a baby years ago when her friend couldn’t take care of him. She raised him as her own, and to be honest, none of us ever questioned it. But when she got sick months ago, she suddenly started saying my husband and I “needed” to raise him after she was gone. It shocked me because we’re barely keeping up with our own bills.
As she got worse, she became more insistent. Every time we visited, she brought it up again, acting like our “yes” was already expected. She even started guilt-tripping us, saying we were the only people she could trust. I felt overwhelmed and cornered. She wouldn’t even accept our hesitation.
