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SIL

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junebug87 · 17/07/2020 14:48

Last year my SIL stayed with us for a few days. To put it mildly, it wasn't a great visit and I was glad to when she went home. During her stay, she fell out with DH and one evening started screaming at him, calling him every name going. This followed on from a drunken jibe that she felt her brother had changed and was clearly sexually frustrated. She made this remark to myself. I ignored her at the time but since this visit I feel like she's tried to exclude me from things.

She's going through a divorce. When it first happened, DH told me and said not to say anything as she hadn't wanted me to know. This shortly followed on from me receiving a birthday card that I didn't find amusing and felt she was mocking me for being unattractive with the card and content. She has since reactivated her FB account and has added every other family member, excluding myself. I am not going to beg and send a friend request, but I honestly can't think what I have done. We also have a family WHatsAPP group. When I post a photo on there of DS she sees it, but never replies (replies to everybody else), but when DH posts a photo of DS she's all over it.

I know I am probably be sensitive, but she really irks me and it leaves me feeling like an outsider. Family gatherings are always a bit awkward too. DH thinks I've offended her - if anything, its the other way around, but not sure if I am just being silly and unreasonable!?!

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monkeymonkey2010 · 17/07/2020 19:45

how she can only afford to provide water at her divorce party.
Awww diddums......

junebug87 · 18/07/2020 13:12

So DH last night saw she had reactivated her FB account. He asked if I had received a friend request. I said I hadn’t. He then remarked he didn’t know what it was between us! Do I really have to spell if out?!

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excuseforfights · 18/07/2020 13:22

Sigh. He is still half baking you the twat. Just ban her from your horn until she can be civil.

Feedingthebirds1 · 18/07/2020 13:35

He then remarked he didn’t know what it was between us!

Tell him you don't either, so he'd better ask his sister. And if he still writes it off as you taking offence at a drunken comment, ask him to explain all her subsequent behaviour - assuming that she's not drunk every time, that excuse doesn't wash.

FudgeBrownie2019 · 18/07/2020 13:40

Tell him his sister is a wanker and that contact will be zero between the two of you from this point on. You don't have to spend time with people who treat you shabbily just because they're related to someone you love. If she was a friend you'd tell her to piss off, so tell her to piss off.

Also, to be extra petty I'd block her from my SM because I hate when people do that divide and conquer thing where they respond to everyone else but you - don't give her the capacity to do that. Close it all down and she can have communication with her brother, whose sex life she's clearly a little overly invested in. (Is her name Cersei? If so, run).

IJustWantSomeBees · 18/07/2020 13:53

Your DH needs to support you more. If one of my family members was treating my OH like this I would be so angry with them

giantangryrooster · 18/07/2020 14:02

Argh your dh is a moron. He then remarked he didn’t know what it was between us!

You do know this way he is minimizing her behavior, minimizing his own involvement. It's just you that cannot keep the peace and should be the better person 😤.

He is not a wet lettuce, he has the spine of a slug and a manipulative one at that.

billy1966 · 18/07/2020 14:04

Your husband is no prize OP.

I would be seriously pissed off with his remark and he would flipping know it!

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 18/07/2020 14:10

I don't understand why you'd want to be her facebook friend Confused
Personally I'd ignore her - and make it perfectly clear to DH that she is not welcome in your home.

Noodledoodledoo · 18/07/2020 20:28

I have similar with my SIL - I don't even have her phone number, or MILs for that matter. I am the bigger person but am guarded!

No whatsapp groups, no FB - they are on FB but neither party have asked to be friends! So much easier!

junebug87 · 21/07/2020 09:07

I'm not bothered by FB - it's just the principle of it really. That she thinks that this is acceptable behaviour, along with what has previously been said to me about the state of my marriage to her brother. I then get additional grief from MIL when I;ve not Face Timed SIL. I guess I'm sick of being made to feel like I'm in the wrong when just Face Timing would be so awkward and I am not going to be the better person and do it as even the sound of her voice irritates me no end!

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