No one seems to get that I’ll be too busy hosting family for Passover.
This behavior hurts my feelings. I have tried talking to them about it, but this just seems to make things worse. When I last politely spoke to his sister and told her that it makes me uncomfortable when she brings up sordid details of my divorce with extended family members when I’m not there, it resulted in a multi-month debacle, with multiple phone calls to my partner, during which his brother-in-law and sister repeatedly insisted that I’m only upset because I’m “ashamed.
Their nastiness doesn’t seem to be of the type that would miraculously vanish were you two to get married. So here’s a question for you: Why do feel it’s important tonot ever being close. But your longing to have a loving relationship with these people is self-defeating. If I were you, I wouldyour partner to see his family without you. Why spend time with people who are so unpleasant? You two have made a life for yourselves together.
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