Not too long ago I got married. My sister-in-law was causing me problems before marriage as well as after. Aparently she does not think it will work out between me and her brother because of the age difference. And aparently she believes that the fact that she thinks this way gives her right to intrude on our life and insult me. There are three things that bother me the most
1) She speaks to my husband in front of me in a foreign language which I happen to understand and I know that she is speaking about me in a third person, saying things that are not nice. After she is done, she starts speaking english to me and is acting very friendly.
2) Whenever she comes over, she criticizes my housekeeping skills, even though I never claimed to be a housekeeper, I am a career woman. She'd walk into the kichen while I am peeling vegetables in the sink and say something like "what the hell happened here?" I feel a lot of pressure every time she comes over. The funny thing is that my mother-in-law never does anything like this, the only thing she does is offers help with cooking or serving the table.
3) Whenever my husband and I visit the in-laws, his sister either tries to lure him away from me with lame excuses or gets mad at him and hisses "You are not helping with anything!" Why should he help? He does not live there anymore. I used to try to encourage him to help out but now I won't. If he decides to help she should be grateful, but she cannot demand help in my opinion
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal with my situation? Is there anything I can do to minimize the hostility or to fix my relationship with her? I love my husband and she is his sister, so I'd want to build good relationship with her. I tried everything but it does not seem to work.
2007-12-18
04:23:07
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foxy
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