I need strategies for dealing with jealousy here. Probably in the form of a slap and being told to grow up.
My sister (with whom I don't really see eye to eye) has become very good friends with the wife of a former work colleague, who moved to my home country a few years ago. The former work colleague was one I valued hugely (and had a massive, obviously unrequited, crush on as a student) but in recent years he has been a rotten colleague and not a good friend.
My sister met him and wife at a party of my work friends... colleague's wife has accepted much hospitality from me, but never liked me and always ignored everything to do with me, leaving all things like "thankyou for having us to dinner" to her husband - and she was possibly instrumental in destroying the working relationship with my colleague.
My sister and colleague's wife get on like a house on fire, have similarly aged kids, similar outlooks on life, live in the same city, etc.... so really, why shouldn't they be friends? and why on earth should they be friends with me, given that i'm not really friends with any of them any more?
I just feel betrayed all round.