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[quote=Anonymous]You need to grow up.  People have favorite things that change.  At various times in our lives, I am my parents' favorite child.  At other times, my brother is.  And yet other times, my sister is.    Even when the favorite changes, they don't love us any less.  Love is not a finite or quantifiable emotion.  One can have boundless love for more than one person at a time and one's love can change.  Also your niece is a child.  Her favorites can and will change rather whimsically or impetuously.  Also, your SIL's antics only have the power to hurt you if you let them.  Don't take slights from a child's whims or a childish parent's whims.

Also, don't engage or react to your SIL's childish behavior.  If family members call to see what's the matter, just answer that nothing new has happened and that SIL is being tempermental (again) or she is in another one of her moods, but nothing significant caused this.  Most of the time when I respond this way about someone, they understand completely.  Most high maintenance people like your SIL are obvious to everyone around you.  Likely you are not the only one that has to "walk on eggshells" around this melodramatic person so flagging it as another one of her tempermental moods will likely make new issues more about her than about you.

Some people like that behave this way to get a rise out of others.  If you don't rise to the bait, then they usually turn their attentions elsewhere or at least stop trying to get a reaction out of you.[/quote]

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