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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, ah, how often do you visit these childless aunts, OP? I'm thinking pretty much never?[/quote]

Op here. No one lives near them. We have a couple kids, bro/SIL have more.

I saw the hometown couple each year 1-5x a year for 25 years and holidays.

As a married adult with kids I saw one set 1-2x a year when in hometown and the other 1-2x a year when in their town during work trips.

My brother never saw the out of town one. He works full time in a senior position with lots of travel.

But his wife did some schmoozing behind the scenes the last 5+ years with each aunt. Most of it not in person, we all live 1000-4000 miles from one another. [/quote]

I can see why this is a shock then. No one lives in their state, everyone is same busy working or with their K-12 children, everyone is physically seeing each other once or twice a year.... then this reveal. I don't think you'll ever know what the SIL said to each aunt recently - it could be a combo of how much she cares, how she has time to do this all (true or not), how others are not.  And the bloodline brother was too busy to think otherwise so just hopes it skates by forever.

I think, given the above, SIL did some deliberate brinksmanship to get in position of power.

Do the aunts get along with their sibling who is your parent? Maybe one way to win over a childless, married aunt is to find a common enemy or common cause.[/quote]

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