November 24, 2018, 9:46 am. In my family/friends we are pretty informal, so even its not explicit plus ones are always assumed to be invited. No drunken rants or anything dramatic. Maybe you can meet individual members of his family so its not such an event meeting everyone at the same time. it was known that their wasnt enough tickets for me so I and our three children would have to stay back at the MIL house where there would be people there getting ready for the graduation party. it is really fishy. I believe he needs to break that cycle. God damnit, now I have some work to do. Your experience is in no way applicable here and was pretty shitty in general. But then one day, she had a little freakout where she told us all how rude we were , & somehow we never made her feel welcome. Attempt to figure out why. The LW came across as snobbish, entitled and demanding. the husbands family member was getting married in a very small ceremony, so small that only immediate family was invited? January 15, 2013, 5:18 pm. Add your answer to this question! Or did she simply call up your husband and say hi bro so im having a party and you should totally come out! was that it? My husband was invited to his sisters high school graduation three hours away. If you want to remain uninvolved because you are not invested in either side or you dont want to upset anyone. He should say no, even if the SIL has a totally valid reason for not inviting his wife. Are you sure youre not invited? But at least you would have ASKED. GatorGirl So while your boyfriend could have handled this a bit more sensitively, (certainly after you helped him shop and drove him around) he said he didn't think you would want to go to the party. 19/20 year olds who can't afford an uber aren't going to "black tie, invitiation only" parties. Would you really want to go anyway? I think that if he would have, they would have treated me better, not for me, but for him, which would have been much better than being abused by them for 33 yrs. He doesnt need to stay home with you for him to know you guys are a unit. I disagree with Wendys comments going straight to blaming you and questioning more things about other issues in your marriage. the husbands family hated his mom for whatever reason, and so she just stopped going to FL when they went to visit. One guy passed out drunk on the girl's couch and then woke up and groped her multiple times before she literally pushed him out the door One guy pleased himself in bed (without a request from the. ah, but you see, it takes two to make drama happen if you dont feed it, it doesnt grow. usually by that time in your life, you have a mortgage, kids, whatever, stupid stuff that ties you down and doesnt let you just party whenever you want with whoever you want. If he did not succeed, the LW would at least know that he tried and together they could make a decision about whether he should go to Chicago without her. But to let your SO do so much (or expect it) and then still not invite them - even after they ask about it - is just super rude. And I am never invited.What to do? January 15, 2013, 10:06 pm. Im so sorry this is happening, I would feel so betrayed by my husband. Addie Pray His age and actions lead me to feel like maybe your relationship is not that old and hes still in the I'm just a single guy mentality. As most of you know, I hate my sisters SO, but even him I would invite (while gritting my teeth). He's super close with his family & I have a good relationship with them as well. So he has more room for others than he has for me? Imagine if your bf/husband and your siblings behaved like this? I think its ludicris to not invite the LW over. January 15, 2013, 2:09 pm, Im so depressed I turn 35 this year. And I say this as someone who has an evil sister in law. We only have a teeny bit of info that the LW decided to share with us. Dont let others decide how your time as a couple is to be spent. So the i do except some times i dont would most assuredly clearly signify a question of your commitment your love and your agenda because when you are married you have an unspoken vow that NO ONE SHOULD EVEN HAVE TIME TO ASK ARE YOU GOING that vow isI love you through thick or thinI love you and promise to protect you to walk hand in hand through lifes ups and downsyou didnt promise to go steady.you promised to love and honorso by attendingby not bringing everyone together to find a solution like grown ups by ignoring the BLATENT and very public humiliation of being the family member the other half of your husband the uninvited family member is a passive aggressive public humiliation and your attendance is a clear choice to side with hurting you. January 15, 2013, 11:59 am. January 15, 2013, 12:17 pm, Yeah, we really dont have a lot of information to go on here. Login first Wendy, dont give marital advice, you seriously have been married for half a second, and by the sounds of your about me section, its been all sweet smelling roses. I ended a friendship with a friend who didnt invite my husband to her wedding. January 15, 2013, 10:39 am. I find it hard to believe LW doesnt know why she was excluded. Tough. I think your husband needs to ask his sister SPECIFICALLY in no uncertain terms, if youre invited. jlyfsh On the one hand, your spouse is your closest relationship and you should always have their back. Just dont make this more difficult on him than it already is. I just dont think its realistic to think youre always going to be able to step out and be 100% chill about everything. Whomever the wrong party iswhether it was a mutual disagreement or one in which there was an aggressor and a victimthe husband needs to make this the point at which it is resolved. Introducing you to his family is a pretty big commitment. Image credits Photo by Ins Castellano on Unsplash. And Im still making compromises to protect my family my husband, and my MIL from their own familys particular brand of nasty. So ask him. The first was the hostess claimed I wasnt invited because another regular at the party always got heated about politics and she thought I instigated it. I know that if I invited my brother to something, it would be assumed that his wife would be invited. This is not acceptable. Sorry, but this letter gives me n-o-t-h-i-n-g. All I can do is make assumptions. They do it because they are evil and know it and they have to blame the victim. SHE is his primary family now. I see how I may have sounded extreme by saying that my husbands acceptance of this invitation shakes the integrity of our marriage. Try working with him to find ways to make it easier for him. I guess its because I feel so terrible about not being invited but yet he is still choosing to go. Thats just how we roll. I also have Catholic guilt. January 15, 2013, 12:07 pm. i mean, i get it, you spouse should be your number one priority, but really- they dont like each other (for whatever reasons- it doesnt really even matter at this point, right? January 15, 2013, 2:11 pm. ), so he goes to see his sister/family and the wife stays home. 5. Because yknow, he doesnt actually like you all that much. SevenEleven January 15, 2013, 9:24 pm. January 15, 2013, 1:52 pm. I mean, you say he doesnt deny that you were purposely excluded, so what is the reason for this? What would be the purpose of your husband skipping his sisters 40th birthday party? January 15, 2013, 3:47 pm. Ok, I think this is more of a rant, but Im really annoyed by it. i think the adult thing to do would be to go to the party, tell the sister that shes being a jerk, LW to graciously stay at home, and then for the SIL to look like the jerk that she is, like bossy italian wife said. Some are worth putting your foot down about, and some just arent. But I just feel like I would have love to be included. It made me feel special. Why does her husband have to ask his sister why she wasnt invited, why cant the LW just grow some ladyballs and ask herself if it is such a big deal. At the end of the day, you shouldn't have to force him to invite you. Even if my SO said he wouldnt bc of me, I still think Id tell him to go. ill be there. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. I wish her luck because her husbands refusal to stand up for her and give her guidance on how to get along with his family is going to create major problems in her marriage. Totally Want more info on this one. So, message received. You dont care who messes with your home life. He may be loyal today but eventually he will question your love for him. @katie I think that would be the worst thing to do, everything I have read about creating a strong marriage means that the husband should choose the wife or at least they need to come to a decision together and present a united front. Does anyone remember the Dear Prudence where a woman was getting sick after eating at her MILs house every time and in a follow up switched the gravy tureens with her husband and then her HUSBAND got sick and blamed her for trying to poison him? At least not in my experience! Did the SIL mention the party on the phone to her brother and say soemthing like Oh, Im having a party, you should come! and the LW took that as she wasnt invited or where there formal invitations mailed out and the one that shows up to their house only had the husbands name on it? If he told my sister not to come home anymore bc he doesnt like us, I would lose it. January 15, 2013, 11:42 am. January 15, 2013, 2:34 pm. Great In Laws Who Just Don't Trust Anyone But if he NEVER invites you out, when the group is big and mixed, he just doesnt want to spend time with you. Go to those together. I really think you should be talking to your boyfriend about this, we can't give you any reasonable advise based on the 2 sentence conversation you guys had. female So I know they existyou just seem to be omitting the reasons behind her behaviour and that seems to indicate they arent favourable to you. 6 Amazon travel essentials for your next getaway, starting at $12. Well that just sounds like an annoying person, way different that normal people who just like birthdays! I have to wonder if it isnt something like this. Its what I do. Maybe her MIL has mamas boy issues and made it sound to the SIL like the LW would never be willing to come all the way to Chicago for a party in order to get her special boy to come out by himself. So this Friday he has a birthday coming up and my birthday follows just two days after. The guy i'm dating doesn't invite me to his birthday party. Same here. Skyblossom 8. 4. Nothing has changed, he still doesn't invite me. that is a pretty legit thing, and if i remember right we have had letters about that before. Did she send a card addressed to him that said NO GUESTS or something? January 15, 2013, 11:56 am. Even if they knew her boyfriend was going? However, my husband feels differently. This doesn't necessarily mean he's ashamed of you for being you. Im sure you want to know why hes not inviting you to family events, as well as what you can do to be invited. This means hes not just avoiding a certain person or an awkward situation, hes trying to keep you and this part of his life a secret for some reason. Its important to be open and understanding of other peoples ideas of family and what it means to them and integrate that into your relationships. He doesn't invite you to family events. LW, I would urge you to let your husband go on his own to the party- heck, Id even buy the sister a pretty little gift and send it along- twist that knife in the wound! It might also be that you've just gone through a breakup, and the person throwing the party was closer to your ex than you, and decided not to invite you to avoid drama. So in Wendys about me section it should say my stupid husband left the toilet seat up again. So, in that sense, yes SIL has won, she has caused LW and her husband to fight and created the situation where husband has accepted her invitation against his wifes wishes. Talk to him and tell him that if he never wants to hang out with you outside, even in big groups where theres really no excuse (you could even sit at the farther side and just chat with people), then why are you even together/living together? He says things like:Shall I come over after dinner? and How about we have a sleepover after Ive been out with the boys?. he is the broker of peace in between two apparently petty jerky women who go out of their way to slight the other one *through* the husband/brother. 20. My favorite not holiday is the Kentucky Derby. I think you should write in to the forums for advice. This makes it sound like something is off in a marriage, when one person is this upset and cant even talk to their spouse about it. If you are innocent of wrong doing then it would seem your SIL is crazy and your husband totally fine with it. When I got home, I realised that I was quite upset. Loud music? Your husband loves his family and has a right to spend time with them with and without you. Questions - he asked me to take him to find an outfit. Let your husband go, plan a girls weekend, and take a spa day! Related 14 Signs your boyfriend is done with your relationship. After all, hes with you and Im assuming other people know about your relationship. If thats the case here, I can definitely see the rudeness. Not cool at all. 15. Or. because she is the spouse of someone in the family. My husband and I have faced the kinds of challenges typical of a couple in their 40s who has been together a dozen years (caring for aging parents, death of a parent, various illness, job and money and housing woes, miscarriage, special needs parenting challenges, and juggling demands on our time and energy from a variety of sources, for example), but I count my many, many blessings and dont feel I have anything to be miserable or bitter about at all. I wasn't invited to my boyfriend's family function, and I can't seem to get over it. January 15, 2013, 3:18 pm. LW, you may have some self reflection in store even if you are totally blameless. Methinks there are some other issues at play here and that you should take the energy youre funneling into being angry about this invitation and focus it onto your marriage and whats going on in the larger picture to create such cracks over this one detail. It was awesome because it was an excuse to get everyone together all at once, AND yes, a couple friends drove in from out of town. Who the fuck do you think you are? Leave marital advice to the pros, counsellors. I am AMAZED that you advised this woman that it does not affect the integrity of her marriage if her husband attends a family gathering in which SHE..his wife..is deliberately excluded! My boyfriend of about seven months planned a holiday vacation (to Morocco) without consulting me or considering me. LBH, I do think there is a difference from not going once from Boston to Chicago for a birthday party and never talking to the SIL again. The wife comes first. theattack The invite came to my husband via text and it was then followed up with a phone call telling him the specifics (date, other people attending, etc). female lets_be_honest He want a night with 'the guys' from his office. so many fun possible conspiracy theories! 2. Fabelle I'd invited him to come home for the holidays with me and he declined, and then he made plans to go on a vacation without me. We do holidays together & events & etc we live 2 hours away so we don't see them all the time but when we go out there we stay with his sister our kids play together, we talk & we joke. Feeling "meh" about them is not a reason to invite one but not the other. While the default position is to support your spouse, certainly you dont go along with bad behaviour just because it is your spouse. Those are things that families do for each other. My boyfriend doesn't invite me to the Thanksgiving party. thank god! Why even bother attending an event if its going to be awkward or miserable? Not fine. January 15, 2013, 10:56 am. If you need to flag this entry as abusive. I dont think youre reaching. Usually no one is perfect and the fault will lie somewhere in the middle. He pretty much always replies to your texts, but only a couple of hours later just as youre debating whether to send a follow-up. also, i wouldnt marry someone who would get involved in drama, so really our united front would be something along the lines of.. so, she doesnt want me to come? ! Could be fun! Either way it'll be a selfish reason, do not go and enter no contact with him. . in her song, Everything Has Changed. Get to know your husband better by discussing your differing sexual appetites and mores, and how to accommodate them. Like Wendy said, Im guessing there are serious issues that led to this very blatant exclusion, and Im sure the degree of their legitimacy depends on how you talk to. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Skyblossom Addie Pray Steeze January 15, 2013, 1:50 pm, But how do you feel about adults who celebrate their half birthdays?, lets_be_honest I might have an answer then. Dr. WHY do you think you werent invited That is an excellent point jlyfsh. yea, i guess that is true if you look at it that way. Even the most understanding family may start to chafe if theyve tried to welcome a new spouse into the fold but s/he chooses to stand apart and draw lines in the sand, as you said. Sigh. But I wonder what would happen if LW just showed up for the dinner in Chicago if she really didnt do anything to warrant the exclusion? It's frustrating if this happens when it's just you and a couple, but it can also be weird when one person brings their date to say, a meet up of college friends. Since the day you said i do, you are family. Visit Metro's Rush Hour Crush online every weekday at 4:30pm. Actually, I agree with Amybelle and Fabelle only to this extent: Is is super annoying when the adult birthday girl or boy expects people to do so much for their birthdays. Maybe you believe you did nothing wrong, and maybe youre totally right. Any event you arent invited to? Hes using their money to travel out there, depriving her of whatever his chores are while hes at home, etc. January 15, 2013, 11:49 am. Confusion = Hes just not that into you. Ops situation is quite different from yours.At 30 shes probably gf #8 ish, and hes become more cautious on introducing(hanging out) gfs to his friends and his friends care less of meeting new gfs unless they start becoming something serious. There could be a million reasons, none of them good. Dr. Gilda Carle is the relationship expert to the stars. LW, just to echo the question others have had above, how do you know for sure you werent invited? I agree. GatorGirl Could it possibly in any way be an oversight, or could she have assumed that you two would know you were also invited? You may feel like you're being left out or neglected. I imagine that this situation is similar; SIL gets what she wants, and LW gets to feel like an ass. I wouldnt attend a party my own sister invited me to but didnt invite my fiance. Sorry, thats part of being adults and being a family. I mean, we all have limits but short of a situation like that one letter about the sister getting pregnant by my (ex)husband type actions, my sister will always have a roof over her head as long as I have one to give. A call to the SIL will LIKELY clear it up. Not true at all. Addie Pray You aint gonna be the next Kim and Kanye with a fool like him Nope. 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