Connection With Relative's Partners And Their Family ?
pinkyponk34
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Is it expected for one to diligently work at having a connection with the family of whoever your sister/brother/niece/nephew choose to marry or shack up with ?
Been to a few social gatherings and I'm thinking these people are total strangers to me yet I feel it's bad form to ignore them, but there's no common denominator except that we both know the same person .
That's not enough is it ?
Been to a few social gatherings and I'm thinking these people are total strangers to me yet I feel it's bad form to ignore them, but there's no common denominator except that we both know the same person .
That's not enough is it ?
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You shouldn't be expected to become friends with them though if you don't want to. Just be polite, civil and respectful.
Guilt factor 0%.
I think the OP is not talking about partner's relatives but your relatives' partners. That is your sister's partner's family or your brother's etc.
I find the whole extended family thing quite vexing. Luckily, my current partner's family are all lovely and I enjoy seeing them. One of his sisters somehow married an irritating cretin though, and I try and avoid him when I can. Occasionally, there is a big do that Irritating Cretin's mother and stepfather (who were chavs before chavs were invented and believe everything they read in the Sun) are present at and that is just painful. At these events, I'm thankful that I smoke and have a legitimate excuse for spending a lot of time out in the garden.
My S2BX's family are ghastly, but luckily mostly live quite a way away and I often opted out of family events on the grounds that one of us had to stay home and look after the dogs. I used to live in dread of his mother moving down our way and having to find another excuse.