Dear Steve,
Shield your partner from ANY pressure oozing out from your family… Loneliness in the relationship starts with nonchalant attitudes like exposing your partner to your folks’ excesses which only you could absorb as it were. Betrayal isn’t in cheating only, but also in failing to support or shield your partner from being served with hot soup on a hot seat. I understand the dilemma you’re in but you still need to support her so that she doesn’t feel like a stranger in the family.