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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If all my siblings got together and I was the only one excluded, I would absolutely be sad. For whatever reason, SIL doesn't like OP and OP's brother isn't willing to make waves. [/quote]

My husbands siblings get together in random groups all the time.  The only thing that makes this weird is that it is Labor Day weekend.  But why blame SIL and not the brother.  Maybe the OPs brother needs to step up and help hosting and SIL is tired of doing all the work.

Or maybe OP is the only family with kids.  Having kids changes the event.  We are the only family with a kid in my husbands family and we understand that they have kid free get togethers (although it is not a cook out). [/quote]

OK, but again some more...not everyone views everything the same way.

You say "Labor Day weekend" like it's some thing. It may be, to you and many others. It is...just nothing, pretty much, to me and to my family and to my ILs. It's not a "holiday" to us, it's just...a weekend and a free Monday attached to it. After a summer full of seeing people and vactions and whatnot, we usually don't have the steam to see it as anything other than that.

So it's entirely possible that OP's brother and her SIL just...don't see Labor Day weekend as A Thing.

I agree with you on the point that maybe SIL is just tired of bearing most of the weight of hosting. Brother can step up if he wants more people over. [/quote]

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