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Rebecca
Just Said Yes February 2021

Trying to bite my tongue... Future Sister in Law

Rebecca, on June 28, 2020 at 5:45 AM Posted in Family and Relationships 0 6
So my fiancé’s family is a bit complicated. Him and his brother’s parents split a long time ago. His dad later met their step mom who came with her two daughters and her son. His bio mom is back in the picture but we don’t see her as often as his dad and all of them. Both his brother and step brother are already married. So they’re all pretty great for the most part and I get along with them pretty well. His step mom told her aunt one night that “I could hang” and I turned to my fiancé (then boyfriend) and said that it means that if he ever left me that his family was keeping me. His step mom loved it and was laughing. He was like “what?”. It was funny.


The problem comes with his brother and sister-in-law. They’re normally cool and I like them as people and like hanging out with them. But.... they have told me lies about bio mom, step siblings, etc while claiming to be helping me so I wouldn’t “accidentally” something and become a target of the family being mad at me cause she did that once and they didn’t hang out with the family for a long time. Maybe it wasn’t lies and it was her experience because of how she can come across (She’s an LPN that talks down to my fiancé when she claims she’s trying to help him with his weight and what he should do. She’s very offensive and it comes out more harmful than helpful.) They’ve also lied about me to my fiancé’s father the night before my fiancé proposed. I cried that night cause I’ve caught them in so many lies. They’ve even talked crap about bio mom, one step sister, and the step brother and his wife. (Ironically, they’ve talked crap about the step brother and his wife my entire relationship with my fiancé and would say crap about the couple wanting to hang out with them. but all of a sudden they want to hang out with the couple more and more like they’re besties). Honestly, it makes me wonder what they say about me to the family.
Since my fiancé started talking to them about wanting to propose they’ve been all about planning and dictating it. I don’t know how they let him buy the ring he did cause it wasn’t as expensive as her ring and wasn’t listed as an engagement ring (which is why he refers to it as costume jewelry).
My fiancé proposed to me right in front of his family (they were all in on it) and she walks right up to me and says it’s all thanks to her and she planned everything and even though he wanted to propose after dinner instead of the next day at the beach like she wanted, that she still planned it all and that him getting my ring was because of them.
My fiancé got it from the beauty and the beast collection cause when we started dating, he was going to rent us the then new beauty and the beast movie one weekend. But I went and just bought it myself a few days early and watched it. It even had one of my favorite actors was in it. I did rewatch it that weekend with him in which he saw the dance scene and said that itd be great for a wedding dance. So it has sentimental value. It was the perfect ring. The actual engagement ring in the collection is big and reminds me of costume jewelry which makes the expensive ring, not worth the price. So yeah I’d rather have the one he got me. It’s perfect.

So since we’ve been engaged for about six months, she has said she will be planning my bachelorette party and everything. She’s not even my maid of honor and I haven’t asked her to be a bridesmaid. She’s just taking it on herself. If I show the family a wedding dress or bridesmaid dress I’ve found, she pulls up more expensive dresses to show me. I have a budget and I am saving up my own money for the wedding that I’m paying for but she doesn’t seem to respect that. She even shows me dresses she knows I don’t like or want for my wedding dress.
But she also says (in front of her husband) that she wished she’d have waited to get married so she could have spent more money on the wedding. He paid for the wedding and let her choose... to either spend more on the wedding or have a bigger honeymoon. She choose to spend his money on the wedding and go over budget on her dress.
They had a good little honeymoon but she’s vocally jealous cause my fiancé wants to take me to Disney and he wants to go to universal cause we both like Harry Potter, and because that’s what he wants and I like the idea, that’s what we’re going to do. She says “you’re gonna have an awesome honeymoon” while visibly being upset about hers not being as much.
Like I said, I like them as people. I really do. But some of the behaviors is annoying. Especially when they lied about me or tried to act like I had a problem with bio mom. They said bio mom came to their wedding dressed inappropriate in short skirt and low top, and was trying to be in every photo like a proud mom (even though she didn’t really raise the boys); after we got engaged I got worried from all their stories about her that I said I could have a dress (or moo moo) in my trunk just in case and she could wear it if she tried to show up inappropriately dressed and that I thought it’d be only fair if we had a family photo with her in it but also step mom cause she raised him and she was there all this time; well they started about how I had a grudge against bio mom (who btw told me that she texted my fiancé while she knew he was at work and that she would whip his butt if he didn’t text back) and they then changed their stories about her behavior at their wedding and acted like I just don’t like bio mom. What the?????
She’s even tried to dictate about my wedding colors and say it should be about season and I’m like I’m gonna do colors of a theme Not a season. But still she goes on.
So, I don’t know how I’m gonna navigate getting through this to get to the wedding. At this point, he’s the best man cause he’s the biological brother but I don’t want to ask her to be in it. I don’t even want to tell her the color of the bridesmaid dresses (when I pick them out) cause she’ll probably be dressed like she’s in the wedding. I am torn between doing a simple dress or getting a fancier one cause of all this. Every step i make is judged and every word they say, I don’t know if it’s true or another lie.
Thanks for letting me vent. Sorry it’s so long. Also I don’t know if I want to do a beauty and the beast color theme or a Harry Potter theme.

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Latest activity by Rebecca, on June 28, 2020 at 1:46 PM
  • Mindy
    Super November 2020
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    That’s a lot to deal with. And family dynamics are always tricky.
    Honestly, it’s not her wedding and that’s really the end of it. You and your fiancé need to do what makes you happiest and not bring up the plans around her. It sounds like she’s the kind of person that has to have her hands in everything and being given credit and have the limelight. That’s not the kind of person I’d want involved in any of my wedding stuff.
    I’d ignore her and her comments. Go with your vision.As far as which is best, i would have a terrible time choosing. Beauty and the beast has that blue and gold elegance while Harry Potter has multiple color palettes to go with. I have a friend who’s doing a Harry Potter wedding and since she’s a ravenclaw, I want to say those are her predominant colors. It’s looking gorgeous.
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  • Kerin
    Super February 2021
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    I would say put your foot down. You don't have to be disrespectful, but you do get to have things your way. And, honestly, with the type of personality you're describing, I would do it in front of everyone just so your demeanor isn't portrayed as anything other than the reality.


    Normally I'm someone who doesn't care what others think of me but family is tricky and you don't want to cause a rift, but this is your wedding, not hers, and she is stepping on toes...
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  • Rebecca
    Just Said Yes February 2021
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    I think I’ll take your advice and try not bring up anything around her. The moment after he proposed, she immediately started taking his moment away from him. Best part is it was one of the step sister’s birthday. The step sister only said “if I’m important enough to him for him to want to do it on my birthday. Okay” (yet his brother told him he couldn’t propose at Christmas time because the brother proposed to his wife on Christmas Eve so my fiancé had to pick another time. It’s really weird and there’s a lot. Back before he proposed, me and his step mom and some of the others used to joke that my fiancé and his brother would plan my wedding and since I’m the same ring size and weight as his brother, that his brother would try the ring on (he did) and try/model the dress on for my fiancé and then just tell me when and where to show up. The joke was because my fiancé had told his brother what he wanted in front of me but I wasn’t part of the conversation. I was in the car and wasn’t in the conversation so we joked that it’d be the easiest wedding planning ever.


    I’m trying to stay on a budget so I’m thinking of maybe working little stuff into it. Like the colors. If I do Disney, could do the yellow dresses with a Single red rose (cause well symbolism and it’d be cheaper than a bouquet). For the bridesmaids (or blue bridesmaid dresses with yellow ribbon around the rose and yellow flower girl dress if I have a flower girl). Maybe some blue on the guys. If I do Harry Potter, he’s a Griffyndor and I’m a Hufflepuff so I could do yellow dresses and some red for the guys. Granted the morning after my fiancé proposed, at breakfast (we were on vacation with his family, we mentioned our dog and dressing him up for the wedding. Well his brother said that if we did the beauty and the beast theme that he was not dressing up. We weren’t planning on doing costumes but I was like well we could use a cogsworth or a candlestick. Of course I only said, that if we did, he’d be the only one we’d dress up! Lol
    The best part, if they ever try to get rid of me; they can’t. Turns out his brother married my 4th or 5th cousin -or more (I didn’t know her or even of her till I started dating my fiancé cause I don’t see that side of the family) So yeah. We have joked that my fiancé wants to be just like his brother that he wanted to keep it in the family. Of course his dad picks on the sister in law, and every time he remembers I’m related to her, he starts cracking jokes on me too.
    At a family dinner one night, someone asked when he was going to propose and he was caught off guard and was like “me? Why do I have to do it. It is 2019 after all” and the family joked that It wouldn’t be 2019 but we’d check again in 2020. They kept that joke up and the first full week of 2020, he proposed. Turns out my coworkers knew too (I work with step mom and the step brother’s wife) and no one let on and the family kept making jokes all the way up until then. Good job guys. Well played. Gotta love them.
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  • Rebecca
    Just Said Yes February 2021
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    Yeah, there’s the exact reason I don’t talk to family members on my dad’s side. This exact behavior. I pretty much had the choice of her as the maid of honor or someone that’s always had my back and is my friend. So I asked my sorority sister of now 11 years to stand beside me. Of course, my sister was the one that dragged me to recruitment and when she graduated, I took care of her little as if she was my little sis (my little had already transferred schools). Her little was friends with my fiancé in school (which is how we met). Granted, we didn’t date until 5 years after I had graduated. So I felt it was only fair that since she set off the chain of events for us to meet, that she should be by my side here too.
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  • Kerin
    Super February 2021
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    That is very interwoven, but you do not want to defer to her the rest of your life on every subject, and she seems to be a big personality that likes to be as involved as humanly possible regardless of whether it's her place 😉 I have a couple of those in my life, too, so all I can say is good luck and stand your ground ::hugs::
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  • Rebecca
    Just Said Yes February 2021
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    Thank you. It’s just odd that of his siblings, step siblings, and his sister-in-laws; he’s the oldest child and I’m 2 years older than him. I am trying to keep my feelings in check. His family knows how she is cause she’s had problems with most of them at some point or another.
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