S4H - besides your now thinking that a false sense of hope may be occuring in your girls, what about yourself? I would not fret it too much now, but if your M is on the road to a D like BBJ's, you will need to eventually ween the family time.
At first it did give me a false sense of hope - something along the lines of a door not completely closed. That hope for me is now gone, but you're right at some point, the Sunday dinner's will need to end.
