Family member ignores emails?

Question

I know this question might sound so trivial but it bothers me.
Since my brother and his family have arrived back into the country they are acting really strange.
They sent me an email to invite my husband and I to dinner.
We went to dinner and had an ok time, but they ignore my emails
with one exception. When I send emails about my husbands art exhibitions,
they are quick to reply but any other emails that i send just get ignored. I have invited them to dinner by email, sent recipes, family photos, and general info, but it all gets ignored.
They ignored my emails even when they were living in another country.
How do i deal with this?

Answer 1

My advice would be to stop emailing them all-together. Sometimes people take things for granted and don't miss things til they are gone, ya know? See what happens. If after a while (like a month or 2) they still do not email you on their own maybe give them a call and have a talk with them. GL and have a nice day! =)

Answer 2

Perhaps they don't spend as much time on the computer as you do. My brother has email and I learned a long time ago that if I want to communicate with him I'd better use the phone, he rarely checks his emails. Trying phoning every so often just to say hello, how are you or to let them know about something happening in the family. If they seem distant during the call then they obviously don't want a close relationship. Just because you're related does not mean you are destined to become best buddies.

Answer 3

Hmm..Wow, that's a tough one. I would say you have to come out and plainly ask them if they've been receiving ALL of your emails. Then if they say yes you can say well, I only receive replies every once in a while so I wasn't sure. If after that they still don't respond to future emails then I would discontinue sending them anymore, even the ones about your husbands art exhibits. If you want them to attend his exhibit then just phone and leave a voice message, but don't waist anymore of your time sending emails that never get answered!

Answer 4

You can either get a new e-mail address specifically for "Those People" to use and then never check it. Or you could just tell them that if they don't have anything intelligent to say than don't say anything. As for teaching that sort of thing in school, I will pray it never happens. I have nothing against being who ever you choose to be, but it doesn't need to be throw in peoples faces. Something like that should be like an extra curricular activity, a group of sorts, so anyone who wants to be a part of it can. They already teach enough useless crap in school. If they want to teach something helpful they should be teaching life skills such as parenting,(and when it's best to become one, not at 15.), budgeting money, and establishing and keeping a good credit rating(to decrease the amount of chapter 13s and bankruptcy's), job searching, preparing resumes, and interviewing techniques, and for extra credit they could give kids a list of choices for community services in their area.(they do do that at my boys high school, but I don't know of any others.). So, there you have it, sorry to veer off the subject, but to me it all goes together. (of course you know my style, cuz you're stalking me! ) Later beeoch!

Answer 5

Both my brother and sister are like this.
Some people just communicate better in different ways, phone, whatever. I prefer email, but it doesn't mean they do too, some people just don't get into it.
I talked to my brother about it and was very honest and just said hey could you at least hit reply so I know you're getting my emails? You don't even have to type anything... He got the point and hits reply now, he sometimes even says hi ;)
Just don't take it offensively if they still don't email you, because I don't think it's anything personal.

Answer 6

Send out an email that says something nice like "Just wanted to say hi and see how you all are doing...this is what has been going on in our lives lately, blah blah blah". Then at the bottom, write "I never know if anyone gets these emails because i never hear back from them...if you could take a moment to just reply to say hello, i would love to hear from you!". That way, if they STILL ignore it, you can bring it up to them at somepoint and have real ground to stand on. otherwise, they may just say they didnt know it was such a big deal to respond and leave you feeling like you are overreacting.

Answer 7

Have you thought that they want to hear about YOU. Not about problems, not about recipes, not about other family photos etc. some people don't even have HTML set up on their computer and will not see pictures. Do you understand? it's so easy to just send emails, forward junk email etc. you begin to lose a relationship with family and friends over emails. don't abuse the Internet.. use it as a key to stay in touch.. and don't over due it.

Answer 8

Maybe they are just bad emailers- I have a wonderful brother less than 30 minutes away that NEVER calls but email back if I email him. I hate it because I love him- I did find out that he does it to everyone though and that helped me alot---

Answer 9

Write one more time and tell them your not going to e-mail
them anymore becuase they don't seem to respond. And
also let them know how they don't seem interested. This
should catch their eye's. As you know they always seem to
receive your other e-mail, you know for a fact that they are
reading all their e-mail. So this means their picking which
one to respond. When they finnally respond, because feeling
quilty, just keep it brief and to the point or nothing at all.
They sound like my sister, she only calls when she needs
a favor.

Answer 10

I would send them a email and ask them out right why they are ignoring your emails. Let them know its up setting to you.