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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Do you hold your brother’s wife accountable for his behavior?[/b] I’ve never had a close relationship with my SIL, and it’s fine—we’re very different and not close in age. But my husband has never put much effort into his relationship with his family—as a brother, uncle, or son—and I sometimes feel like I’m held responsible for that.

Like if he forgets to RSVP for a wedding, or doesn’t buy gifts for his nieces and nephews, or if he’s not visiting his mother very frequently, it seems to reflect more poorly on me than him, but I don’t know if I’m just imagining hard feelings.[/quote]

No, absolutely not. His behavior is up to him only. However, I do not like my SIL and I do think she has a negative influence on my brother and on their kids, as well as on the rest of our family (my parents, me and my spouse, my kids, etc) and that wed be closer to my brother if he was married to someone who got along better w the rest of the family. My SIL makes no effort. I don’t expect her to do things my brother should do like accompanying our parents to drs appts or sending gifts to my kids or whatever. But I do wish my SIL would show [i]some[/i] interest in our family and be nicer to us. [/quote]

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