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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Team wife 100%. My husband's family always helped his sister and never us because I had a better job than she did, even though I went through two high risk pregnancies. You reap what you sow.[/quote]

We went through a similar situation, as my DH's family didn't want to have anything to do with us, but were always helping his sister and her lazy husband.  Free child care, etc.  We didn't care in the least because we liked being self sufficient.  It was just a kick in the teeth when my FIL was sick for months after a double knee replacement gone bad and my husband stepped up and was at his bedside every damn day for months (with a new baby at home no less), because he loved his father and wanted to help.  The kick in the teeth came when he passed away soon after and the sister was named executor and told my husband that their father left everything to her because he said SHE was the only one that helped their father when their mother died.  In truth, she had an attic apartment that she let him move in to and charged him rent to live in.

It took my husband years to get over the hurt.  Didn't care about the money....just the hurt he felt until I could convince him that there is no way his father didn't appreciate all the time he took with him and all the care he showed him in his last few months of life.

Just out of curiosity, though, I still wish I could have seen a copy of the will.   She was sneaky in the way this was handled and it always made me wonder.  She sent me a copy of the death certificate as she said we would need it for the life insurance claim, and she also made it a point to one day say she was coming over with a check from the life insurance policy.  When she got here, she pulled my husband aside and told him that she "decided" to keep all the money for herself as their father wanted her to have it all.   Something didn't add up and my husband was too passive to question it.  [/quote]

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