Dear Prudence,
My wife and I have access to a mountain cabin for a long weekend. We invited my wife’s brother, sister, and their respective significant others to join us. Her sister cannot attend but her sister’s boyfriend has since reached out to indicate that he would like to come. We do not want him to come without my sister-in-law and think it is odd that they assumed he was invited to come on his own. Yes, my sister-in-law knows and is encouraging him to go without her. My brother-in-law says if we invited one we invited both and the boyfriend is not wrong to accept the invitation on his own. Are we obligated to include him?