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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again - my brother has not come back to me with a solution yet. I don't know if it's because I was too direct with him (I told him I felt hurt when he suggested we fly for miles, etc), or he is just considering it moneywise. 
Something does not add up here. His wife is very generous with her relatives. She is a high earner, too. Maybe they have somewhat separate budgets, or maybe she overspends and he is left to pick up the slack? Or is he just penny pinching by nature and it's that simple?

I won't feel used if they pay for direct airfare.
[/quote] Seems like your issue is with his wife and how she spends on her family. [b]Everything else is just an excuse to vent about her[/b].[/quote]

I think this is stretching it. OP is right to complain/vent about SIL, if it pertains to her habits/behavior and expectations of OP helping her out. It wouldn't be a complaint that's out of nowhere, but directly related to the issues at hand.[/quote]

Except OP hasn't said anything at all about what her SIL's expectations of OP are.  OP has been communicating with her brother, not her SIL.  OP doesn't know anything about how her brother and his wife handle their finances.  It's not her business if SIL's relative accompanied them on vacation or how it was paid.  Perhaps OP's brother a spendthrift and his wife saves her money to do things with her family that OP's brother cannot.  OP and her family need to stop obsessing about the SIL and her family.[/quote]

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