Asking Eric: Is blood enough reason to keep someone in your life when they are deeply problematic?

Asking Eric: Is blood enough reason to keep someone in your life when they are deeply problematic?

DEAR ERIC: I am the oldest of four sisters. Let’s call us Ann, Bea, Claire and Dina. Bea is challenging. Since early childhood, she has lied and compulsively schemed to get her way. She perpetually makes bad choices. She had sex with Dina’s husband; she stole some things from our mother’s house the night she died; she drunk calls people. And she has perpetrated dozens of small, vindictive tricks against Claire (for whatever reason, Claire receiv…