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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be close to my sister in law (husband's sister) until my husband and I got married.  Sister in law is older than my husband, single and likely to remain that way.  (She was in a relationship when husband and I started dating almost 10 years ago but it ended shortly thereafter and she hasn't been in a relationship since.)  Everything was fine until husband and I decided to get married.  She couldn't even pretend to be excited about the wedding, so we didn't talk to her about it too much.  Then she got mad that we didn't include her in the planning enough.  Then the reading we asked her to do wasn't long enough.  Then she was upset that we were only going to have our parents give toasts at the wedding.  The whole thing put a bit of a damper on our relationship.  Fast forward to the birth of our kid.  Again, sister in law can barely eek out a congratulations when we tell her I'm pregnant.  She doesn't seem very excited when she meets the kid for the first time and over the past two years has been visibly irritated when her parents fawn over their grandkid.  Understandably, this all bothered my husband much more than the wedding stuff.  In any event, this had driven an even bigger wedge into our relationship.  It's gotten to the point where I have no desire to make any effort in my relationship with her.  We still see her a fair amount as a family, but I don't think I've exchanged and individual email with her in over a year.  We used to email somewhat regularly and see each other on our own.  Between feeling put off by her lack of enthusiasm for our marriage and our child and being an incredibly busy working mom, I just don't feel like I want to spend any of my limited free time and energy on a relationship with her, but I know I should.  Can somebody please give me a pep talk?  Advice on how to mend our relationship.  Do I just suck it up?[/quote]

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