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To not allow my son to visit my brother with my parents

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JJJJJ00000 · 28/05/2020 20:51

A bit of back story, will try to keep it short.
Since we were kids me and brother never really got on, this was mostly due to my mother having favourites and we all knew it. If we were both in the wrong id get the back hander while he would sit laughing. He could do no wrong in my mothers eyes.
Fast forward to getting older, we spoke and acknowledged eachother even took him for days out when I passed my driving test.
Since then he came out as gay, ive always said if he's happy I'm happy. When he met his now husband I said the same thing. Never said anything different. Met his husband just after they got married and he took an instant disliking to me. No reason why, we have asked but we haven't got anywhere with it.
So, since the marriage, my brother and his husband haven't spoke to me. About 5 years now. This has messed up family gatherings as all we get is.. if she's going we're not. Ive tried to offer the olive branch many times but with no success.

Today, following the news of we are allowed to meet up to 6 people in our gardens. Brother called mum and invited everyone over to their house next weekend. Mum, dad, sister and my son.
Mum asked me about it and I said no way. And she knows why for the reasons I've wrote here.
Am I being unreasonable for not allowing my child to go?

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JJJJJ00000 · 29/05/2020 19:25

In response to a question I was asked..
I was the last to be told my brother was gay. For some reason he wasn't sure how I'd react to it. Its not my life or my choice so that's why I said, if he's happy then I'm happy.

I'm a quiet and reserved person, always have been. Meeting new people isn't one of my strong points. So maybe it could have come across as I was trying too hard, but the good intentions were there. I've always been socially awkward
I went out of my way to make his husband welcome, offered him drinks tried to make conversation was just getting nothing back.

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