Husbands family hates me

My husband’s family hates me… and because they hate me, they don’t act like they love my husband anymore.

Before I came into the picture, my husband was extremely close with his sister, brother, dad and his sister in law… he was over there multiple times a week, playing with their kids, taking them out to eat ( his sister and sis in law I mean..) and, in my opinion, filling the role of what a husband and father should be doing for their kids… he would pick kids up from school, babysit for multiple hours numerous times a week… some days he’d even take off work to do these things.. and when he wasn’t over there, each of his family members would literally call and talk for hours at a time. He’d get off the phone with his dad, then his sister would call… when he hung up with his sister, his brother would call… it interfered with our time together and I will admit, I had a issue with it… so I said something to him about it. I asked that when we were together, trying to spend time, he would cut his phone calls a little shorter. And he did just that. That seemed to be when the problems started. When we got serious, and his time was filled more with me, he didn’t go down to his family’s as much. We still went every other weekend or so… but then we started wanting to do other things on our weekends like go hiking and travel. His sister and sis in law never treated me nicely and they were never welcoming, but I was nice anyways. They tried to push me around and I wouldn’t allow it. They didn’t like that. His sister bully’s his sister in law pretty much, and she does the thinking for her. I’m not willing to do that. Also, all of his family live in the same yard, excluding us. They were made when we got married and got bought land that wasn’t right by them.

Now, we have a toddler and another on the way. His family won’t even acknowledge our daughter. When I was in the hospital with postpartum preeclampsia, and my husband was home with our baby, they each called him to tell him why they don’t like me, and all it boils down to is I took him away from them. There’s SOOO much more to this story, but I can’t even type it all out.. I desperately want for make things better for my husband, but I don’t know how. He’s over it and says he doesn’t care, but I know he does. His family won’t even tell him they love him anymore. We have invited them over and invite them out to eat at least once a month, but nothing seems to get better.. his dad is coming around but the girls refuse to include me in anything. Last time we went out to eat, his sister was sitting next to me and was texting my sister in law the whole time… whom was right across the table. I’m just so sad and my heart hurts and I want them to like me and be nice to my husband again. But I refuse to be a doormat and let them bully me. Any ideas???

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