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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, no. I'd go get tea with her.

1) You are an adult. Your brother does not get to choose your friends or approve your engagements.

2) This is the mother of your niece. As a person who is divorced with one child from my first marriage and another from my remarriage, I go out of my way to maintain some cordial relationship with my former in-laws, which includes things like grabbing a cup of tea when they come to town and wishing them happy birthday and such. They are my daughter's family, and therefore they are my family, even though I'm not married to her dad anymore.

I do not recommend you seeing her behind your brother's back, though. I recommend that you tell him, "Sam, we are adults and you don't get to tell me who I can and cannot hang out with. I'm sorry that things with you and Sarah ended badly, but quite frankly, that is between the two of you. When I come to mom's for Thanksgiving, I'm getting tea with Sarah on Friday. She is Amy's mother and therefore she is still family."

That said, I would also make sure that I am maintaining the same level of friendship with his second wife, absent extenuating circumstances. Family is family, after all.[/quote]

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