Hi all,
This is my first post on this forum, so would really appreciate your help!
DH and I have barely been on speaking terms with his family since last winter (2020), due to a number of long-term issues and episodes of unpleasantness (religious and social intolerance, jealousy etc) that culminated in virtually all of them declaring they would not be attending our wedding last July (his grandmother, parents and brother eventually did, after a last minute change of decision, but were very unpleasant to me and my family on the day, and left before the reception started).
We are now very blessed to be welcoming our first child in April, and after being encouraged by DH's grandmother (who has been wonderfully supportive over the last 18 months), for the sake of our child we decided to gradually attempt reconciliation with DH's parents and brother before Christmas. We received lovely cards over the period from both, however when we replied to his brother by email, received no response. I also texted the email to him and enquired after them, which was noted as 'read' but until now has remained ignored. Confused, we sent a nice email to DH's parents earlier this week, after another series of pleasant exchanges, remarking on our surprise at the lack of response from DH's brother, and we have since received no reply from them as well. As such, this has left us completely bewildered, especially after what we thought was such a pleasant exchange of messages (enquiring after our and baby's health etc) and a very generous gift towards the nursery.
Apologies for the long post, but we are both feeling a bit lost (and sad), wondering whether our effort to seek reconciliation with DH's family (for the second time!) has once again been rebuffed?