She Canceled Her Netflix Subscription Without Telling Her Brother Or Sister-In-Law Because They Were Just Using Her Account To Occupy Her Nieces While They Only Focused On Her Baby Nephew
About seven years ago, this 41-year-old woman and her husband, who is 42, decided to get a Netflix subscription after their 18-year-old daughter asked for one.
At the time, they were in a tough financial situation. So they didn’t immediately subscribe to the streaming service.
Eventually, though, they caved and signed up under one condition: her daughter had to spend one night each week watching a show with them.
That worked out for a while, and two years later, her 34-year-old brother finally got married. But, her sister-in-law was previously married and already had two twin girls– who were 10 years old.
“I love them to pieces,” she said.
After her sister-in-law had a son with her brother, though, she claimed that all hell broke loose.
At that point, her nieces were always getting dropped off at either their grandparent’s house or her house without any warning.
“They were just dropped off and picked up the next day to be deposited somewhere else,” she recalled.
“I told my brother that we had to talk after a month of this.”
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Then, about a week after she texted him, her brother replied and just asked for her Netflix login information– claiming he needed it for “bonding time.”
And in hindsight, she realizes she should have called her brother out on that. But they are siblings, after all, and she didn’t want to refuse him. So, she wound up handing over her streaming account.
More recently, though, she was at the park with her nieces and her younger daughter when one of her nieces asked to sit with her.
Afterward, her niece asked why they didn’t visit that much anymore, and she claimed her niece should be happy spending quality time with her parents.
It was at that point that her niece revealed her brother and sister-in-law never actually used the Netflix account for bonding time.
Instead, she learned that her brother and sister-in-law always leave her nieces to watch Netflix alone while they spend time with their baby son.
She was shocked by that and wound up telling her husband once she got home. Her husband was infuriated and shamed her brother for being a bad father– whether the twin girls were “biological or not.”
She really agreed with her husband, too, and ultimately decided to unsubscribe from Netflix altogether. And this wasn’t just about teaching her brother and sister-in-law a lesson, either.
By that point, her family just really didn’t use Netflix anymore. Her eldest also started complaining about how the company may ban account sharing– which would be bad since her daughter was attending college across the country and was the only person who somewhat used the account.
Her husband agreed with her idea, too, and pointed out how the subscription money could just go towards other more useful utilities.
So, they ended up allowing their Netflix subscription to expire. But it later created a ton of drama in her family.
Once the subscription ended, her sister-in-law “went knocking” and apparently berated her for canceling. Her sister-in-law claimed that it was not her decision to make since her brother and sister-in-law still used the account also.
She wasn’t taking any of the comments, though, and actually just slammed the door in her sister-in-law’s face. Then, she claimed her sister-in-law needed to “self-reflect,” which caused her sister-in-law to scoff before storming off.
And ever since that incident, she has not seen her brother’s family. Apparently, her sister-in-law has been radio silent; meanwhile, her brother has only communicated with her through their parents.
According to her, this hasn’t just impacted her but has also impacted her own children. In particular, her 15-year-old son– who was promised a trip to a sporting event with her brother this past week. But her brother wound up canceling.
So while she really feels like she did the right thing, she has also begun to feel terrible seeing how upset her kids are.
“Not only that, but my nieces’ relationship with my brother and sister-in-law is ‘totally unsalvagable,’ according to my brother,” she explained. Apparently, her brother wrote that in a nasty Facebook post in which he blamed her and her husband for his now-tough family life.
Anyway, all of this has pushed her to self-reflect about whether she should have just remained complicit. She is even tempted to resubscribe to Netflix now just to make her family more peaceful.
So, in the wake of all of the drama, she has been left wondering whether canceling the Netflix subscription without telling her sister-in-law was really a jerky move.
Was she required to inform her brother and sister-in-law of the Netflix cancellation if they were just mooching off her account? Was it just a cherry on top that her nieces wouldn’t be stuck in front of the television and disregarded anymore? If you were in her shoes, would you resubscribe? Or would you leave the situation alone?
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