Mother-in-law


Hello my mother-in-law is very demanding and controlling, to the point that we can’t even tell her when we go on vacation. Some of my family are coming and excited about it, but she does not like my family and gets so intolerable when she is upset, so we end up hiding it from her. My step children will eventually find out that my family is there, so how do I approach this with everyone involved as I am pretty anxious about this?