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    Angry Faince's SIL What to do Please help

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    Ok so it starts like this . I am 15 years older then my Current SIL to be . I was recently engaged to my faince since Feb of this year Her knowing this she announced she was engaged to his brother 3 days prior to us telling everyone about us. So we let it go . Not only did this annoy us but hurt us deeply since his brother was deployed and was not even here to be able for the family to congrad him. So then we were gonna announce us a few months later figured give them some time but then she announced she was getting married in Sept. So again we put off us . We finally announced we were engaged in October Which again was fine with us 2 days later she announced she was trying ot conceive BTW im 35 y/o so that tell you how old she is . At our engagedment party she introuduced all her bridesmaids over again like no one did not know who they were already. But not by name by this was my bridesmaid such and such ... Really ????? Now she wants to see my ring first i never wanted a diamond i wanted a cubic and she went on FB and announced that my fiance was a cheap and did not really love me or he would have gotten me a real diamond . So I messaged her askeing her what her problem was she then proceeded to ask me about my ring i told her it was 1ct she then tells me she wants to make sure my faince does not have better taste then her husband and hers was 2 cts. so i guess he loves me more... Now we are trying to replan our wedding because i thought i was being nice and showed she how easy it was if she uses certian sites like my wedding and wedding channel it was a great planning tool and even went as far as showing her all our ideas and what we bought . You guessed it she took all my ideas the place we were getting married the dress enough to i asked if if she would like my father to give her away and my faince to marry cause she took all my other ideas for my wedding she made the whole family dislike me then told my mother in law that i was starting problems. She consitatnally tries to play up the oh im so innoccent card and everyone is against me " I guess that comes with age " everything we do is critized and rituculed . I am tired of playing nice with her and i am tired of being told im older she is just young it will end how much should i have to deal with . Oh let me not forget to tell you how far she has really gone. we had a mistake and got pregnant Birthcontrol failed . But ended up having a miscarriage " Better for the time" she came over to play nice but told me how god works in such funny ways sometime *Laughing* and how we should not feel as if we need to try again . before she has one .

    I am really tired of her having this competition with me its like a race but i dont wanna run i keep telling her to live her life and stay out of our bussiness but thats not enough . My final straw was when she told me she will be home for the holidays and will teach me how to be a good house wife. OK let me explain I have lived with my faince for 6 years she has only been with her husband for 1 year and lived with him for 2 months........ I need help ingoring her only starts more problem in the family . I have tried talking to her she played the i was innoccent card and how i dont want to be part of this family. Sorry it was so long this is the jist of things

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    It sounds like your sister in law has some serious inferiority issues that she isn't dealing with! Everything has to be one-upped between you two. That is an irritating situation for sure.

    Where is your fiance? Is he involved with this? If not, he should be. Your fiance's family should not be taking sides, especially when all they hear is hers. And because it is his family, he needs to be the one to explain that there are two sides to every story, and perhaps even tell the SIL to knock it off. The solution to me is to ignore her, stop sharing any communication with her except for being cordial at family gatherings. She can't keep competing with you if you don't give her any details to compete with. Again, you need your fiance to back you up if the family doesn't like the action you've decided to take. If he is to be your husband, then you two need to show a united front.

    As for all the trouble with the announcement of the wedding, and the planning copy-cat, etc... Really, as annoying as it is (and I do sympathize, that would get under my skin too), it is only 1 day. You've said yourself that you have been with your fiance for many years, and she has been with her fiance for 1. You've already proven that the two of you are meant to be together - so who cares if she has the same wedding colors and other ideas? Who cares when she annouces her engagement? These things are trivial when it comes to what the wedding is all about anyway. Your union. Keep thinking about your upcoming union with your future husband, if you do that, the fact that this crazy lady is stealing your wedding ideas may seem much less important. And that will help you to not let her get the best of you (which is what she wants).
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    The whole annoucement thing dont rally bother me as much as everything else. He tried to talk to her she ran to his mother and did the whole crying act how were all against her even thought we copied and printed out conversations and had her listen to the vms she left . mother wants to live in kummmbyia and belive there is nothing but peace in her family very neive. im just tried of her starting everyone got along before. Now me and him want nothing to do with the family but he dont wanna loose the realitionship with his brother so its a hard thing . we do he united thing all the time and the sympaty card gets played thats its us against her . Thank for the 2nd look i hope she end this soon .

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    I'm glad your fiance is helping you with this. It is too bad that his mother can't also see what your future SIL is doing. I understand her wanting peace in the family, but then why can't she see who is causing the turmoil? It surprises me that the SIL is the one always running to her with problems, but she doesn't see the connection that the SIL is the one who is always involved with the problems.

    The best way to bring peace is to stop talking to her. She can't have anything to cry about if you don't give her a response to her crazy antics. She may still whine that you are both ignoring her, but that is less of a burden than to say you're being mean.

    Maybe once the weddings are out of the way, she will quiet down. But people like this usually will find something else to focus on. Does your future brother in law see what she is doing? Or does he take her side? I know you said he is away, but perhaps he has heard and can help put a stop to her?
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    Only her side because we tried not bringing him in to it due to him being deployed and having enought to worry about over there. Yeah maybe i should just delete her. I just dont wanna make things worse for my faince. I have a aunt like this well she has multi personalitys she is even easier to deal with i have not spoken to her in 5 years due to the drama she brings. My MIL knows whats going on but does not care or wanna be involved so its tuff.. all we want her to do is live her life and stop worrying about how clean my house is or how big her diamond is compared to mine . How big her house is its all materlistic stuff that means nothing to us . but my faince is a cop and does not make great money enought for me and him to survive with my income so he feels inadicute . even thought he knows that stuff means nothing , The family that knows thinks we should just ingore her she is young and were older but that only goes so far . I doubt so she was like this before we got engaged . It was christmas present then or clothing

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    Well, I think a big part of it is a combination of her age and the deployment. She wants to share and be happy. Good for her as she should be. The part that isn't right is her personality. She is who she is and trust me, she sounds like the type of person who at some point in time your fiance's brother will come to find that no matter what he does, how much he makes, how big her house is, etc. it will never be good enough. It sounds like he's walking into a world of constant pressure to "have more" which will eventually cause the marriage to fail.

    You and your fiance know what is important to you and whether or not that matters to others really I wouldn't give a rat's behind. I wouldn't let her get under you or your fiance's skin. It's never going to change with her so I wouldn't put a lot of effort into either arguing with her or trying to get her to see otherwise. Won't happen.
    There will always be boundries, but making love is so different, than having sex, let's face it. CW

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