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SIL deleted me off facebook - AIBU to be angry?

202 replies

Redhotmama80 · 29/11/2011 22:27

I need to know whether I'm being unreasonable about this. My BIL's wife has deleted me from facebook and its really pissed me off. I realised about an hour ago when I tried to include her in a group invite for the next girly night out with me and the other female relatives of my DP. Anyway I text BIL to say I couldn't reach her on FB and what was going on. He said he'd make her contact me and explain. So she text me and said she was just deleting people from FB that she didn't interact with much and that there was no drama. WTF!! we are practically family!

So I replied, saying that I thought it was weird but she couldn't say I hadn't tried to make an effort with her. She then replied again and said she hadn't meant to cause any offence and hoped things wouldn't be awkward. She also said she'd had a bad experience on FB recently that put her off the whole thing and also that she's pregnant and stressed out as she & BIL are carriers of a genetic disorder and they are waiting to do a cvs test.

Well I'm sorry that she's having a bad time with her pregnancy but I don't think that excuses her rudeness. I text her again to say that although i wish her well with the pregnancy yes, things WOULD be awkward now, that she's never made any effort with me or my children and that this just feels like a slap in the face. Also that I've got my own issues to deal with and that this really doesn't help! Anyway she didn't reply after that.

Am I being U? I'm getting married next week and am so stressed about everything, I really don't need this. And I honestly have tried to make an effort with her but it feels like it's all been thrown back in my face and this is just the final straw.

We've never really clicked. She's really quiet and doesn't have many friends so when they moved to our town, I tried to include her by inviting her on girls nights but she always made an excuse so I stopped asking. I never disliked her until an incident last year, on facebook, ironically enough. I posted a bit of a rant about obesity (it's something I do have strong opinions about) and she made quite a snarky reply to the effect that the obesity epidemic is just a moral panic. I felt really pissed off and patronised about that and since then I've actively disliked her. I think she's quite jealous of me as I'm naturally very slim and she's about a size 14-16. Apart from that, she's always polite but not over friendly and like I said, I have NEVER felt that she's made any effort with me or with my children.

That's it, in a nutshell. AIBU???

OP posts:
QuintessentialMercury · 29/11/2011 23:05

If this op is true, and you are that self centered and thick, then Yabu. You dont seem very nice. I would have deleted you off facebook!

uniCorny · 29/11/2011 23:05

do you have cankles?

BupcakesandCunting · 29/11/2011 23:06

Are you the chubby checker* then?

FFS.

I was all ready to punch you in the face.

*I can say that. I am a chubby checker.

BupcakesandCunting · 29/11/2011 23:06

Do you have a gunt?

hester · 29/11/2011 23:07

What's a gunt when it's at home?
Would I know if I had one, or does my best friend have to tell me?

signet2012 · 29/11/2011 23:08

Its the flabby area that isnt quite GUT but isnt Quite *UNT

Hence GUNT

signet2012 · 29/11/2011 23:09

If you have to lift your stomach up to wipe your bits...... you have a GUNT hester :)

hester · 29/11/2011 23:09

I can't quite picture it... like the CS apron?

Does that mean I don't have it? [wishful thinking emoticon]

Lotkinsgonecurly · 29/11/2011 23:09

I'm with the sister in law. Sounds as if she's tried to keep her distance, saying no to nights out etc and not interacting hugely with you as its fairly obvious you don't have a huge amount in common. Am assuming its quite an effort for her to be civil so suggest you do the same and just keep her at arms length where she wants to stay.

Also don't bully her it sounds as if you may have a tendency to do that.

aurynne · 29/11/2011 23:10

YAB a twat. Your SIL is lucky to be rid of you.

hester · 29/11/2011 23:10

OH MY GOD SIGNET Shock

OK, NOW I get it!

CeliaDeBohun · 29/11/2011 23:10

HUH?

As I said, I'm really sorry. This has just been playing on my mind a lot since it happened. The level of hostility has shocked me and I've been trying to make sense of it, that's all. Confused and Blush

BupcakesandCunting · 29/11/2011 23:10

A gut that blends into yer cunt. (Sorry but you did ask!)

Visualisation of a gunt

uniCorny · 29/11/2011 23:11

there's always one to lower the tone...

hester · 29/11/2011 23:11

OP, the responses on this thread have surely shown you that YANBU.
Your SIL sounds ghastly (though of course we don't have her side of it.)

ViviPru · 29/11/2011 23:11

I thought this might be a reverse AIBU but then I decided it was just too convaluted.

BupcakesandCunting · 29/11/2011 23:12

Celia, you've done the right thing love.

Ignore her and tell your DH that it's your Facebook, your friends list so STFU. She sounds like a bastard of England. Well done for deleting. I have distant cousins that I am too chicken to delete. Wink

Now, gunts. Do you have one?

GreenEyesandNiceHam · 29/11/2011 23:12

Oh Bups that pic is awful, the state of that baseball cap and crops

pictish · 29/11/2011 23:12

Start from the beginning Celia - come on...it's ok....
What has happened?

BupcakesandCunting · 29/11/2011 23:12

"there's always one to lower the tone..."

hester · 29/11/2011 23:13

Grin I LOVE that word! Just trying to think of circumstances in which I could legitimately use it, and not get a smack in the face. And failing...

BupcakesandCunting · 29/11/2011 23:13

Greeneyes, you know it's bad when yer gut has a cameltoe...

Serenitysutton · 29/11/2011 23:13

You've made this up. Too many ker-ching boxes ticked

GreenEyesandNiceHam · 29/11/2011 23:14

Greeneyes, you know it's bad when yer gut has a cameltoe...

Grin Grin

uniCorny · 29/11/2011 23:14

now a camel toe is worse than a gunt...