Maybe she feels he handles it with grace.

What career?

She prob. just added that spontaneously at the end of her speech, and forgot to say more about you and your sister. Let it go.

Anonymous wrote:OP -- No, he has doesn't anything for her career. It was at the end of a thank you for award speech. She acknowledged it like this "my sisters, and my brother, who is the best (his career)." We do the exact same thing, so why acknowledge his job and not mine. I found it so strange.

This sounds like something I might have said in a moment of adlibbing, without really giving it too much thought.

Have a glass of wine and let it go OP.

This happens with my in-laws. They all stay at home and recognize all the male career achievements but not mine and I have more career success then the males and earn more money. It's really awkward. But whatever. I'm with them a few times a year and I try not to let their insecurity touch me. They had kids in their 20s so by the time they were my age, they had an empty nest and thus have been underemployed for a really long time. I feel sorry for them. I talk with their husbands about the larger world while they comment on if they should repaint their kitchen...again.

They also have disordered eating so that adds to the weirdness (as in, they don't eat in front of each other...the sisters, my MIL and her two sisters...so odd).

Way to make your sister's special day all about you, OP.

How close is she to your brother versus to you? Is it possible that she sees your brother as a role model/mentor/friend and thus wanted to add an extra half a sentence about him that she didn't feel compelled to add about your or your sister?

It happens. Move on. If you REALLY need to know, ask her about it but you're just opening the door to some explanation that may not be the truth and will ruffle feathers -- as she will feel like -- what right do you have to criticize my speech or why do you think you were owed an extra acknowledgment at my event?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mean to be too snarky here, but you sound a little self-centered. Your sister won an award. You are there to celebrate her. Unless you did something specifically helpful to her winning that award, she doesn't need to mention you. If you are a SAHM (which is awesome, don't get me wrong), you are working in the same career as your brother. If she mentioned you and your former career without mentioning your hard work as a SAHM, then you might have been offended by that.

Relax. Let your sister bask in her glory. Leave it alone.

Look at the subject, genius. And re-read. WORKING MOM.

Genius here. I guess I need to work on my reading comprehension. Please ignore my earlier post and feel the right to be put out by your sister's comments. It is odd now that I understand a little better. Please carry on...

Anonymous wrote:I don't mean to be too snarky here, but you sound a little self-centered. Your sister won an award. You are there to celebrate her. Unless you did something specifically helpful to her winning that award, she doesn't need to mention you. If you are a SAHM (which is awesome, don't get me wrong), you are working in the same career as your brother. If she mentioned you and your former career without mentioning your hard work as a SAHM, then you might have been offended by that.

Relax. Let your sister bask in her glory. Leave it alone.

Look at the subject, genius. And re-read. WORKING MOM.

Anonymous wrote:I don't mean to be too snarky here, but you sound a little self-centered. Your sister won an award. You are there to celebrate her. Unless you did something specifically helpful to her winning that award, she doesn't need to mention you. If you are a SAHM (which is awesome, don't get me wrong), you are working in the same career as your brother. If she mentioned you and your former career without mentioning your hard work as a SAHM, then you might have been offended by that.

Relax. Let your sister bask in her glory. Leave it alone.

I think you need to reread the Op? Op is a working mom who is in the same profession as her brother. Their other sister is a SAHM and the SAHM agrees with Op that the Op was slighted.

I would let it go. She might be closer to him; her words might have come out in a rush, she might be grateful to him for something you know nothing about, she might have just been having a conversation with him about his doubts about his career. Whatever. Its not even worth a Dcum thread.

**you are NOT working in the same career...

I don't mean to be too snarky here, but you sound a little self-centered. Your sister won an award. You are there to celebrate her. Unless you did something specifically helpful to her winning that award, she doesn't need to mention you. If you are a SAHM (which is awesome, don't get me wrong), you are working in the same career as your brother. If she mentioned you and your former career without mentioning your hard work as a SAHM, then you might have been offended by that.

Relax. Let your sister bask in her glory. Leave it alone.

I would wonder about it but I would just let it go.