Hello,
I recently joined the message board because I have an important question to ask. My sister and her husband have a lot of vices, low self esteem, and low integrity. They have some virtue and character. They both have had troubled childhoods as I have. They do not have the ability to understand moral concepts like I do. They are for bigger government, higher taxes, and letting in mass amounts of people who believe in Sharia and Jihad. The husband shouts in front of my niece and my sister, getting mad about miniscule things. He has been high from weed in front of them multiple times. He hangs out with low self esteem people with low integrity. My sister is very defensive, insecure and anxious. She does not listen to reason or evidence and neither does he. I love my niece very much and she is attached to me and I am attached to her. I can't not be apart of my niece's life because I love her. She is one year old. How should I approach this situation? I don't want to give up hope on improving my niece's environment or childhood experience. I add positively to it but I want to see what I can do with how I should deal with my sister and her husband? Should I become a better persuader, influencer, communicator, or negotiator? Are those my only options?