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How would you feel if someone told you you are not needed

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Amyrhaf · 05/06/2025 12:40

How would you feel if your sister-in-law told you outright, “you are not needed here” that my DH “has a mother, has a sister, there is no need for you here at all” my DH and I have been together since I was 18, now 33, 2 DC. I have since blocked her on all SM and keeping a huge distance from her, but really, who would accept being spoken to like that?

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faerietales · 05/06/2025 12:44

What’s the context?

Amyrhaf · 05/06/2025 12:44

Katemax82 · 05/06/2025 12:42

No one would accept being treated like that! Imo wife trumps mum and sister..

Since keeping distance from her she is now openly aggressive towards me if we do happen to bump into one another (she lives with her parents very close by) and her mother is making me out to be a horrible person because I am “making her poor innocent daughter feel lonley”

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Hankunamatata · 05/06/2025 12:44

Wow. What on earth was the context that she told you that?

Whataloadoffuss · 05/06/2025 12:43

Op, I'm so sorry, what was the context of this? She should never have spoken to you like that, it is extremely disrespectful. You're his wife, which makes you his immediate family, and you come first before SIL imo, they're close family, not immediate.

something2say · 05/06/2025 12:43

That is the meanest oddest thing ever! A man doesn't need his wife because he has a mother and a sister?

Don't give her a second thought, strengthen your bond with your husband and be very wary of them. The nerve!

Odd, OP. Don't you worry.

MoistVonL · 05/06/2025 12:43

Depends on the context. On the face of it, rude, but it is all about the context.

What were you doing, and were you interfering?

Katemax82 · 05/06/2025 12:42

No one would accept being treated like that! Imo wife trumps mum and sister..

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