MY HUSBAND'S BROTHER AND HIS WIFE: Have you ever dealt with people like this?

Family Strife - A kid's drawing of a family home...
Australia
April 7, 2008 8:05am CST
I am so frustrated people! Ever since my husband and I have gotten married about almost 2 years ago I have had to deal with their crap and I'm so sick to death of it. I have tried to get along with them over and over and get over things and appologize, EVEN WHEN I WAS IN THE RIGHT and now here I am again having to deal with their same old insanity. Here's the situation.... I recently found my husband's old LiveJournal account from before we met and I had been reading it over and found it to be very amusing and decided to post a link to it on my LiveJournal because I thought it was amusing and I wanted to get a laugh out of others, forgetting that there was a post in there about an old fight between my husband and his brothers. So, my sister in law sees it and I guess decided to look through it and read of an old fight that my husband and his brothers had way back in 2005. 2005 people! She decides to make a comment on my post and say that it always upsets her to read it and that my husband lied about it and blah blah blah....Which let me tell you, his brothers have a post about it too and I didn't feel the need to rehash things because it's in the past. I told her I didn't want to get into it because I was not there when it happened and I didn't know any of them when it went down. There was an issue on who won the fight and I just said that I thought that it was more likely that my husband won because he is the more experienced of the group and he is larger and she just kept going on and on about it. Mind you, I was still trying to keep out of it because as I kept telling her "I WASN'T THERE." Anyway, she made a big issue of it and I pretty much was trying all I could not to get into it with her. So, I blocked her and her husband from my LiveJournal and left it at that and even though she went and of course is playing the victom in her LiveJournal and crying that it was all me, IT WAS NOT! I was trying to keep out of it as best I could and even now. Am I wrong here? Was it right for her to bring up the past and put me in the middle of something that I wasn't even there for? Is it right for her to constantly call my husband a liar and put him down? She stirs up the sibling rivalry and competition between the brothers and there is no need for it. My husband doesn't even mention the fight anymore because he knows it was so long ago. Why is she like this and why am I always to blame and she acts like she never does no wrong? What should I do? I told my husband I really want nothing more to do with his family and I am done trying with them. If we go visit, I am staying away from them. They blame me for everything and they never see their part in anything. I'm just so tired of it all and I have enough stress on me right now with my problems with anxiety and panic. What would you all do in my situation? Please tell me because I really don't know what to do anymore or if I should even care at all?
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
7 Apr 08
I guess I shall have to tell you something that someone said to me when I was more nearly your age and had a few similar issues. It wasn't something I really had the leisure to talk about much, but while walking on the beach with an acquaintance on a rare afternoon off from work, I shared a bit of my frustration, and although I was rather shocked to hear it at the time, this is pretty much what my friend said: "Why are you surprised that these people are nasty? Don't you see that you have everything and they have nothing?!" No, I didn't! I was still climbing up the career ladder and they were trying to beat me down. They lived flamboyantly and spend money like it was water. I was always working and saving for the future. From my perspective they had everything and I had nothing. But she went on: "No, Ann," she said, "You are smart. You are attractive. You have discipline. You are going somewhere. They can sense this about you! But they will always be just what they are now. Don't you see. They are in a hopeless rut and you are free. That is why they hate you!" Well, I was frustrated but hadn't really though of the possibility that these people actually hated me. Wow! Or that that was OK. I certainly didn't feel very free juggling three jobs and taking night classes too. But over the years I began to understand what this person meant. So I guess it is my turn to tell someone else what was told to me. I choose to tell you!
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• Australia
7 Apr 08
Wow, thanks so much! I never really thought about it that way. This really helped, thank you!
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
22 May 08
The best thing I can tell you is just steer clear of the whole bunch of them or at least the troublemakers. Let them do their thing and you do yours. Whatever their problems are they will just find a way to blame them on you. **AT PEACE WITHIN** ~~STAND STRONG IN YOUR BELIEFS~~