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[quote=Anonymous]This sounds like my family.  I was the wrong ethnicity and was therefore excluded, along with our children, from multiple events.  My BIL and I are in the same profession, except that he has concocted elaborate lies about his job and position for his family and community. For example, he pretends to have a PhD.  Since we belong to the same professional organizations, etc.  I actually know that he's lying and he knows that I know.  Awkward!

I have also experienced the scenario where your family shows up for a visit and you are informed that DH will be spending the day at the beach with his brother out on the boat, and that SIL got called into work, and the in-laws are going somewhere and it's just going to be you and your toddler in the non-babyproofed house in the neighborhood where you know no one for twelve hours.  You are not given a set of house keys and therefore don't leave the house because you're worried you're going to lock yourself out and have no one to call to let you back in.  You cannot figure out how to work the TV with all the various remotes and you spend the day reading the kids the two books you brought with you and when they nap you find an old Betty Crocker cookbook in the cabinet which you proceed to read.  Did you enjoy your vacation?

Unless you have actually experienced this sort of weirdness, you really can't imagine what it's like. DH and I decided together after one of these strange visits that we wouldn't be repeating the experience.  The idea that there is a distance because someone is hiding something is accurate -- but it could be a lot of things.  Doesn't have to be another family, etc
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