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To expect brother to say thank you or acknowledge gifts

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Tead · 24/12/2022 09:20

My brother and I don’t really get along nor do we really speak. He has always been indifferent toward me and our parents.
This year he had a child and I tried to reach out to him a few times but have been generally rebuffed, although we have see the baby once.
I asked if my family could visit his during Christmas but he said they were to busy
i sent a few Xmas presents for his child last week and they have received them but he hasn’t acknowledged this nor sent a card.
I sort of feel like there isn’t much point in trying to connect with him if he isn’t interested. Should I just stop. I want to but I also want my kids to have a relationship with their only cousin

OP posts:
Aprilx · 25/12/2022 18:48

Rogue1001MNer · 24/12/2022 23:29

Um. I don't agree.

I adore my cousins, and my DD absolutely loves hers.

But, OP, I do feel his actions are speaking loud and clear

I have lots of cousins, but I don’t know any of them as neither of my parents bothered with their siblings. I feel it would have been nice to know my cousins, but I don’t think I have been scarred for life by not knowing them, I suspect that was what previous poster meant.

I have found my cousins on one side of the family on Facebook over the last few years. My sister did a DNA thing a few years ago and connected to cousins on the other side of the family.

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