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I don’t communicate directly with her and I’ve made it clear to my DH that all communication with his family should go directly through him. I love my brother but I don’t have to love and fawn over my SIL and invite her into our lives. It just feels intrusive because I thought I had made it clear my relationship is with my brother, not her. [/quote]

This is the oddest thing I've ever read. I have two brothers, they've both been married for a while, and while their spouses are not blood relatives of mine, they are family members of mine since they married my siblings. I don't consider acknowledging them, or buying gifts for their children to be 'fawning'. My SILs are naturally a part of my life because they are the mothers of my nieces and nephews, they are my child's aunts, we see each other at family events, so I know them reasonably well after 10+ years of family get togethers. I do tend to directly communicate to my brothers about scheduling for said family events--mostly because I think that they should be responsible for managing their primary family interactions and saying yes or no. You do realize that this is how a lot of family's operate, yes? Are you from a bad family situation where everyone just looked out for themselves? A lot of people are more generous with their family and extended family.[/quote]

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