DEAR SISTER: It’s tricky when you want to set a boundary but to do so fully would involve putting someone else’s business in the street. However, you’re right to not want to socialize until some amends are made by your sister and her one daughter.

Dear Eric: I’m not close to my sister. Over the years, there has been very little contact, except when she needs money. She and two of her adult daughters have called asking for money, one asking more than once.

In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who is annoyed by their sister's scamming habits of borrowing money while never intending to pay it back.