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Oversensitive?

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NooniOnFire · 05/06/2016 19:43

NC for this but I am more of a lurker than a poster anyway

My mother and older brother have always teamed up to 'wind me up', mock me and generally use me as a butt of their jokes. They justify it as 'it's only a joke' and 'you're just over sensitive'.

Today me DH and DS popped into their house to drop something off. My mother began teasing me straight away and my brother joined in. Not only do I not find it funny, I feel humiliated in front of my DH and DS. I was visibly upset and told them so but they just tried to distract me by talking about other things, which they have always done (to avoid having to apologise). I left quickish to get myself out of the situation.

Aibu or over sensitive, to hate the ganging up to tease me?

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NooniOnFire · 05/06/2016 22:23

Thanks all. I think limiting contact is the way forward. They have always done this to me and it's made me utterly miserable, thinking there's something wrong with me. I see now it's them not me.

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Lymmmummy · 05/06/2016 22:26

YANBU

Sometimes certain family members just feel an entitlement to treat others in a certain way and it's hard to break the cycle

SIL like this with DH - she is an absolute horror - not good looking dresses like an ageing hooker - but family tradition seems to dictate that she thinks she is entitled to make endless jokes at DH expense - which she believed are hilarious but are actually cringeworthy - his fault because when she makes this sort of jokey criticism he should really just go straight back at her with a similar criticism. I find it very irritating and in one occasion lost my rag just told her (in front of rest if family) well what difference /business of yours it it if DH wears X - haven't you heard of X brand it's a new one - that shut the cheeky little madam up.

Openmindedmonkey · 05/06/2016 22:50

YANBU. They are bullies, like it or not.
My XH thought it was so funny when BIL & SIL did this to me. (One of the many reasons for the X).
Don't put up with it.

ChicRock · 05/06/2016 22:58

YANBU.

My SIL did this to my DH all the time, constant digs and piss taking and snide comments. Until one day during a family meal she started and kept on and on (with DH doing his best to ignore it) and I told her she was a nasty fucking cow. Even FIL shamefacedly admitted it was about time someone told her. She knocked it on the head after that.

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