She And The Rest Of Her Side Of The Family Could Not Attend Her Brother’s Destination Wedding And Then Her Brother Sent Her A Heartbreaking Email Over Her Lack Of Attendance
Destination weddings may be beautiful, but they are not always realistic for the couple’s families– especially during a global pandemic.
Well, this woman’s twenty-nine-year-old brother decided to have a destination wedding two months ago, and the event spurred a slew of familial problems.
“Unfortunately, none of our side of the family could attend due to multiple valid reasons,” the woman said.
Her grandparents are all too old to be traveling, her mother is fighting breast cancer while her father takes full-time care, the woman herself was pregnant, and two other family members are doctors who could not risk traveling during COVID-19.
The rest of her family either could not afford the trip itself or could not take two weeks off from work.
All of these reasons for missing the wedding are logical. Still, the woman’s brother and his fiancé were not understanding of them.
“We tried to explain the situation to them months before the wedding, but we were hit with ‘our wedding, our rules’ and ‘don’t like it, don’t come,'” the woman explained.
She and her family also asked to help in any way that they could. The woman pleaded with her brother to pay for the bridesmaids’ dresses, but he said he “did not want money, he wanted her at his day.”
“I tried to explain to him that his wedding was four days before my due date,” the woman recalled, “He ended up screaming at me and calling me a spoiled, entitled brat. Then, he blocked me.”
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The wedding has since passed, but the past two months have been filled with passive-aggressive posts on social media and “bride/groomzilla tantrums.”
That was until the woman’s mother received gut-wrenching news– she only had six months left to live. So, the woman’s brother and his wife decided they wanted to make up with the family.
“We all ended up having dinner at my family home tonight. Everyone was being extremely cold to my brother and his wife,” the woman said, “No one really cared to hear about their wedding nor look at their photographs.”
As the night went on, her brother eventually gathered the siblings separately to ask why the family was mistreating him.
“My youngest brother told him that tonight wasn’t the time, then walked out. My oldest brother said that, when our mom died, he would never speak to him again,” the woman said.
Since she is the youngest sibling, though, her brother was the most upset with her. He felt that she really should have been there.
“I told him you got your big day, now you have to deal with the consequences,” the woman said. Her brother became very upset and left with his wife.
“My brother sent me a heartbreaking email afterward about how he felt so rejected since we were not at his wedding and did not apologize after,” the woman said.
With a newborn baby and her mother being ill, this woman is confused about how to respond to her brother. What would you have done in this situation?
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