Am I just being overly sensitive?
I've just turned 30, and I've not received any card/gift from my BIL or SIL. My SIL wished me happy birthday over social media, and so did my BILs wife nothing from BIL.
In the past I've always gone out of my way to make their 'big' birthday gifts a little more special than the standard £10 in a card. I'm just a little miffed that they haven't even sent a card.
I'm now in the mind frame that the gifts I've got ready for their birthdays can stay in my cupboard for me to enjoy.
My husband seems to think I'm being overly sensitive, because everyone has lots on their plates with the cost of living, and a smidge of family drama. I've reminded him that they all earn a fair amount more than us, we also have that smidge of family drama to contend with and I am literally about to pop any day now with our second child, and they have either received their birthday gifts for the year or have them sat waiting in bags to be received.
Even if they'd just come and said look we can't really afford birthdays I would have understood, it's more the fact I feel like I've been brushed off as unimportant. Everyone's 'big' birthdays have always been made a bit of a deal about.
I'm not a selfish person, and it could very well be the end of pregnancy hormones kicking in. I just feel a little sad and cross that people I go above and beyond to make feel special on their birthdays don't seem to want to do the same for me.