AIBU?
To expect an invitation to my SILs birthday drinks?
Lowflyingbat · 18/10/2007 16:40
I am writing on here really because I want to vent. It is my brother's wife's birthday tomorrow and I have just found out from a mutual friend that she is having a party tomorrow night. I didn't know anything about it (despite asking my brother what he was planning for her birthday). They think they are very "cool" and I think I don't fit into their world now that I have had a baby and am a couple of sizes bigger than I was. I am ridiculously upset about it. I feel like crying and know I am being silly and that's why I am writing about it on here and not saying anything to any family or friends about it. Argh - baby woken up and crying... gotta go!
heifer · 18/10/2007 16:55
well I wouldn't dream of inviting my sils (or brothers) to my party tbh - have always had the policy of not mixing friends and family together....
This may of course change for my 40th, but if I was having a normal party at our house then I really don't think I would invite them...
Would happily have them over another time for a drink/dinner etc, but no wouldn't invite them to a drinks party...
and nothing to do with not being cool enough etc, just friends are friends and family is family...
MaryAnnSingletomb · 18/10/2007 17:02
My db and SIL are a fair bit younger than me and we live miles apart so don't really socialise apart from family things of course (and I'd say we are a close family) - we have different friends - I used to more when we were younger though. If it was a big party I'd prob. be invited- a 40th for example, but wouldn't expect to go to anything else, but it sou7nds as though Lowflyingbat's don't live that far away and have more contact than my brother & I.
Lowflyingbat · 18/10/2007 17:52
I hear what some of you are saying but my brother, sister and I are close and socialised together a lot before I got pregnant. My sister was invited. It's hard not to feel a little offended. I also can't help thinking that it's because I no longer fit into their perfect, beautiful, celeb packed, coke snorting world.
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