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Feeling down because of this...

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bunzie · 26/01/2018 16:47

Dh and I are the only ones with dc on my side of family.... dd are lovely and at such a playful age 2 & 4 years old. my brother who lives 10 minutes away never sees my children. today on cousins group chat, another couple announced that they were having a baby. everyone sent their congrats. but my brother behaved over the moon excited saying how he would be an uncle now, boy or girl, due date, how his mrs would be aunty and would feed the children etc etc. I try and not allow his absence upset me... I get used to it but do feel sad for my dds. But his behaviour in chat has made me angry... He also meets this couple and family in general more than he meets us with kids... my mind is just imagining how he will be a doting uncle to their dc, when he could never be bothered with mine. I'll probably get over it... but I just can't understand how insensitive people can be sometimes.

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LizB62A · 26/01/2018 17:00

How odd - him saying he would be an uncle now when he already is !

Maybe you should reply on the group chat and remind him he's already an uncle to your children.....

Labradoodliedoodoo · 26/01/2018 17:05

THey are clearly good friends as well as relatives, which does make things different. I wouldn’t take it so personally. All my brothers were crap uncles and it took them having their own kids to step up

OrangeCarpet · 26/01/2018 17:08

He sounds like a twat

Gemini69 · 26/01/2018 17:18

Dick Alert.. Hmm

I'd have posted a photo of his blood nieces to remind him that he already is an Uncle... despite his best efforts at denying being such... PARTICULARLY as he knows you are in the group chat... what a Prick Flowers

bunzie · 26/01/2018 20:09

Thank you for your replies. Some may argue that I can arrange a meet up but that went out the window when cuz + bro stopped inviting us after dd was born. I asked him why as with a child, I was rather hoping to be invited out even more to have a break. But he told me point blank that it was cos of our children. All meet up were at pubs or after 8 pm. Will be interesting to see now how they accommodate the new parents...I'm sure my brother will bend over backwards thinking about their convenience. He is my only family here, no parents here....and it not like we estranged. So does affect me.

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BrutusMcDogface · 30/01/2018 13:06

Why is he behaving like this? No other back story? I agree with putting a subtle comment on the group chat. Maybe a "?!"

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