Am I right or wrong?
I don't know if I'm right or wrong in feeling the way I feel. I can be irrationally sensitive at times, especially because I'm pregnant so I'm gonna try to be as unbiased as possible and ask for honest opinions.
My boyfriends family and I have always had problems, especially with his mother. Apparently, his last girlfriend was "amazing" and did everything without being asked and is very sociable and generally an easily likeable person. She's also somewhat of a "pushover" in the sense that she lets people walk all over her feelings and doesn't say anything. I'm a little different. I don't have as much humility and I'm very introverted. It takes me a while to get warmed up to people. But when I would walk into their house, they wouldn't say hi to me and if I'd say hi to them they'd just ignore me. They never offered me anything to eat or drink when I was there until maybe about 4 months into the relationship. I just felt so uncomfortable. They take my shyness as being rude and here's the thing: I'm not all that shy, I'm still polite but I'm not an overly bubbly person until I've been made to feel more welcome/comfortable. Anyways, flash forward four years and things haven't got much better. We had a bad breakup and split up for a good 7 months. They were happy as anything and tried hooking him up with other women. We've been back together about three months and things are going wonderfully. He's cleaned himself up and I'm pregnant and we are planning to get married.
His mom has slowly but surely warmed up to me but I feel as though it's totally fake and only because he's argued with her many times about her being rude to me and so has his cousin. For example, his brother is getting engaged and they are so nice to her family and her. They invited them down from NY to spend the weekend and they treat her like she's a princess. I look past it and try not to take it personally but I can see the difference in how they treat her vs me. Yesterday I did everything perfectly, came out of my shell and helped his mom with things getting ready, dinner and lunch and sat and talked with them. It seemed to be going okay. Well later on in the day, they basically just all sat around talking in Arabic, which I don't speak, for the majority of the evening. Knowing I'm sitting there no one bothered to translate or include me in the conversation and I'd try to include myself where I could but I just felt it was really rude. After a good 4 hours of sitting with them like that I decided to excuse myself for the night. Wasn't a huge deal and I got over it. This morning I get up and go downstairs and say good morning to everyone and his mom seems to have an attitude with me but said good morning back. I noticed everyone, including the guests, was dressed and ready to leave. My boyfriend had already left for work. I asked them if they were leaving and they said yes. They never once asked me if I wanted to Join them, there was plenty of room, and left me home alone and said goodbye. I feel that is so incredibly rude, the brother and his girlfriend were invited but I wasn't. My feelings are really hurt. Am I right to be upset or am I overreacting?
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