| Having a child outside of marriage is trashy. Perhaps on some level she realizes this? |
| You and your mom sound judgmental and perhaps miserable. Good for them to keep positive vibes only. |
| It’s not news that women take the lead on the social family dynamics. When they don’t like each other, there’s no getting together. Husbands and boyfriends just follow their lead. |
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If your mom “looks over” everyone she meets, she’s incredibly rude.
So you want to control your brother by telling him to tell his fiancee not to be so sensitive and controlling? Got it, crazytown. |
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| Op, put yourself in her shoes. She knows you like his ex wife better and think she is controlling. She knows your mom gives her mean looks. Why would she want to spend time with you two? She has good boundaries, she does not need to expose herself to people who resent her. You could become genuinely nice to her so you can be included in their lives, and then try to be a bridge between her and your mom. Or you can just keep resenting her but don’t expect your brother to force his wife to deal with that. |
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So how did you find out why the gf didn't want to share Tday with you and mom? Guessing your brother told you.
And you believe that he's controlled by the women he's with? And you need to tell him to tell her to be less sensitive? Your mother looks over everyone she meets? Mom having a stroke last year should dictate how the gf acts? And you're talking about brother's high school sweetheart/first wife as if she has a role in all this? Sounds like you've the one creating all the drama. You're really grasping here over one incident in which your brother threw his gf under the bus rather so you'd be mad at her and not him. Carry on.... |
Got damn? |
Got Milk? |
I’m glad you don’t know how to tell him because you absolutely shouldn’t say anything! She’s the mother of your niece. I would focus on being an aunt and building a relationship with my niece with the understanding that any drama I’m involved in will affect that relationship. Stay out of it. |
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If you want to appear credible: 1. Identify yourself as the OP every time you post. 2. Stop calling your brother's significant other, and the mother of his child, a "chick". It's disrespectful. 3. Accept that you cannot control your brother, and that you might never, ever like the humans he associates with. 4. Feel free to vent here. But please stay courteous face-to-face with your brother's girlfriend. If she wants to be unreasonable, that's her prerogative. You will not respond in kind. |
| Tell your mother she's going to have to work at being more welcoming if she wants them around. |
| OP, this is DCUM, not Jerry Springer show! |
NP here. Then you would be absolut ely shocked at the way SIL behaved when DH and I married. So many rapid fire intrusive questions, so much judgment, yet not a reciprocal relationship - because SIL thinks other women are as judgy as SIL is. |
| Icky family |