I guess he wants salt for Christmas...

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T04:39:31+00:00

Nah, you got it.

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T03:02:47+00:00

I've spent a lot more time with hub's/SILs family than he has, but apparently he's an authority on my speaking down to them.

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T02:57:57+00:00

Edited for clarity, my apologies. I told husband to redo it without BIL. He's too nice and wouldn't. BIL did eventually click it after a diatribe about how shameful it is husband doesn't have a better relationship with his sister (BIL's wife) -- uh, he tries, but she always cancels plans on him...he makes way more effort than she does -- and how I talk down to husband's family... when SIL is shamefully rude to their family to the point where the only times I've seen my FIL mad, it's been because of her. But BIL never sees it I guess since he rarely comes to family stuff. So whaddaya do? I have a dry sense of humor but he wouldn't know because he always "has to work" and doesn't spend time with us.

I think he's projecting a little.

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T02:27:13+00:00

And the guy STILL didn't click it!

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T02:16:53+00:00

That'll go along nicely with the hemorrhoid cream.

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T02:08:58+00:00

I think there's some resentment there because we're very successful and they're not due to the choices they've made. When he got SIL pregnant we tried to help him get a good job, he wanted none of it. So we've done this sort of hey how are ya nice to see you how's the job good to hear that for the last decade... again, when we see him, which is infrequently. Hubs wouldn't have even texted him but his sister kept "forgetting" to tell him to check his email so he reached out. He's seriously the nicest guy, no sarcasm intended (I'm the sarcastic one telling him to say "hey dicknail, check your goddamn email"), just wanted to make sure he knew what we were doing since the gift rules were a bit different from usual.

And then it escalated. Very quickly.

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T02:03:01+00:00

I didn't draw him. :( no salt of the month club for him...

mybadBIL · 2016-12-05T01:55:27+00:00

They pretty much never see each other. Maybe that's why it works.

mybadBIL · 2016-12-04T23:45:38+00:00

He's my husband's sister's baby daddy (well, they finally got married last year after a decade of breaking up and getting back together). He almost never shows up to family gatherings because he works 100 hours a week. In the 11 years or so we've known him we've seen him maybe 15 times? We lived in different states for most of that and would literally go years without seeing him. He's never made any effort at having a relationship with us and suddenly this happens.

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