She’s Been Ignoring Her Sister-In-Law For Months Because Her Sister-In-Law Is Always Very Rude To Both Her And Her Husband, Who Is On The Spectrum
This 28-year-old woman is married to a wonderful man, 30.
She and her husband have been together for the last seven years, and she loves her husband’s family, except for his brother’s wife.
While her husband’s brother is a sweet guy, his wife, who he has been with for four years, hasn’t been kind to anyone ever since she was introduced to the family.
Even though she always made sure to be friendly to her brother’s partner, she didn’t receive the same kindness in return.
“She was always very rude, making mean comments, never eating the food I made for get-togethers, and even complaining to my brother-in-law that my mother-in-law and I are too close, and she doesn’t get the same treatment,” she said.
When her brother-in-law first started dating her sister-in-law, her husband’s brother spoke with their mother to question why she didn’t seem to like his partner as much as she liked her.
He then expressed that his partner was hurt that she referred to her as her daughter, which her mother-in-law still does to this day.
“My husband is on the spectrum, and it’s not very noticeable. She is constantly bullying him to the point that he had a nervous breakdown last Christmas and cried like a child on our bathroom floor,” she explained.
In her view, this behavior from her sister-in-law, which happened over Christmas, went way too far.
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Her husband had been hurt because her sister-in-law said that it was unfortunate that she had more money than he did, and she went on to claim that her husband’s job wasn’t a “real job.”
Unfortunately, this wasn’t the first occasion that her sister-in-law was cruel to her husband, but this was the worst her cruelty had ever been.
Her brother-in-law has never stood up for her husband when his partner has made rude comments.
“It’s pretty clear that he is in an abusive relationship. He came to us multiple times during these four years, saying that he wanted to break up, and never did,” she shared.
After the ordeal on Christmas, she decided to cut off communication with her sister-in-law.
Since her sister-in-law had never made an effort to be cordial to her or initiate conversations in the first place, it wasn’t difficult to end all communication with her.
Last month, her brother-in-law texted her husband to ask why she wasn’t talking to her sister-in-law anymore.
She didn’t want him to tell him the reason because she didn’t want this to fuel the fire and play right into what her sister-in-law wanted.
Her brother-in-law hasn’t dropped the subject and continues to ask her husband what’s going on, and she’s concerned that there will be tension over the holidays.
No matter what happens, she will do whatever she can to stand up for her husband because he’s the sweetest and best person she’s ever known.
She doesn’t want to enable her sister-in-law, which is what the rest of her husband’s family seems to do.
It hurts to see how depressed and anxious he becomes whenever her sister-in-law is present at family gatherings.
When she informed her mother-in-law and father-in-law that she was no longer speaking to her sister-in-law, they understood and respected her choice.
Her in-laws are like parents to her, and she loves them very much, so she doesn’t want to have to skip their Christmas celebration. But she won’t allow her sister-in-law to disrespect her or her husband.
What advice would you give her?
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