Carolyn Hax, March 3 2024: “When do parents tell their kids about Nana’s side piece?”

Carolyn gets part of this right, but the rest she gets so, so, wrong.

Link to the original letter here.

My take: To recap, the LW’S mother-in-law, who’s still married to her father-in-law, is having an affair. The LW’s kids, a three-year-old and a five-month-old, miss her when she’s away with the affairee. The LW wants to know when and how to address this with them.

Carolyn’s answer is that it’s none of the LW’s business, a…