RE: Some advice on how to deal with a "interesting" brother in law
July 3, 2017 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2017 at 10:13 pm by Regina.)
(July 2, 2017 at 5:49 pm)Thena323 Wrote: Go for the long game.
"Nervously" voice your concerns to your parents. It may outwardly appear that they're dismissing the inferences you're making regarding sister and brother-in-laws intentions, but the seeds of mistrust will be planted. Their eyes and ears will be open.
Play your cards right, poison the well (with close attention to subtlety), and they may very well be left with little or NOTHING.
Tee hee...
I thought that tbh
Really nobody in my family is rich like that, but hypothetically if I had some nobody non-blood relative in my extended family trying this, I'd take it straight to the family member they're talking about and outright suggest they cut them out the will. Just to spite them.
Funerals are messy though. My Dad's culminated in a catty shouting match between my Nan and one aunt on one side and my other aunt on the other. Then they started coming for my Mom on funeral arrangements she'd made that they didn't like, which made her really upset, and after they'd abandoned her to do it all herself in the weeks before. That made me jump in and say some things I kinda half regret/kinda needed to say. I still haven't seen the one aunt in over 2 years since.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
