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Dh spoilt 20 year old neice causing havoc

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WhyWhyWhy2019 · 07/08/2019 02:27

Hi all
I have a stupid, pathetic situation on my hands. DH neice is a trouble maker. Wen i got married she mistakenly thought she was going to be central to mine n DH marriage. She is spoilt by her maternal grandparents. Her opinion matters and they allow her to be centre stage. Along came me and i treated her well but dh and i quietly got on with our lives. So at family events she became reserved with me. Fine with Dh. Infact extra friendly with him but cold shoulder to me. She then started to ignore me. Would respond to hellos just point blank ignore etc but she didnt do this in front of dh Eventually i told dh and we agreed i will should not make an effort with her. Anyway few months later, she is now buttering up to me. What approach shall i take? When we tried to discuss her conduct with my sil, sil did not appreciate us “picking” at her daughter and then she told her mum who justified it all by saying she is a child. Since then the relationship across the family has soured. But now the neice wants to play happy families n i just cba.

OP posts:
SunshineCake · 07/08/2019 06:50

You sound ridiculous . Your husbands' niece is yours by marriage now. Be a decent human being.

chamenanged · 07/08/2019 06:52

With the sparse info you've given it sounds like you've come on the scene and caused it with a very young woman who is well loved by all of the adults in her own family, and now "relationships across the family have soured". I wouldn't thank you for that one bit if I were your DH. What was she - 19, 18, younger when you came along and took against her? Really not a good look.

NoWayDidISayThat · 07/08/2019 09:17

Folks it says she is 20 in the title?

Opps, sorry 😬

user1493413286 · 07/08/2019 09:26

I would just continue to be friendly but guarded as currently you don’t know why she’s being nice now. That way you can’t offend the rest of the family and if it turns out that she’s matured and just wants to be friends then great but if not you’ve not lost anything.
I had a boyfriend once who was really close with his niece and when I came along she regarded me as a real threat. It felt quite odd at the time as I didn’t see any similarity in our roles in his life but I guess I was coming along and taking attention off her

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