Should my wife put her sisters needs before her husbands

I feel like my wife puts her sisters needs before mine. Is that normal? Because i do not think it is. There is nothing i want more than to see my kids grow up in a stable family environment,but after years of feeling like this, I cannot take it anymore. I feel your spouse should put her immediate family first i.e (husband and kids). Her sister has been single for the majority of time that me and my wife has been together she doesn't have any kids and always phones her telling her about how wonderfull the single life is and what she gets up to in her day to day life. I feel she makes my wife feel like she is missing out on life. I have been with my wife for nearly 15 years I have two boys one aged 10 and the other aged 5. I will give one example on friday my son was not feeling well, he had a very bad stomach upset and was suffring from dioreha, it carried over to saturday which i might add weather was a nightmare in england gusts of wing up to 80mph and very bad rain. her sister phoned and asked her to go to her place to wax her legs. she said yes which i was unhappy with due to the fact my son is not well and her sister lives an hour away meaning you have to get numorous buses and trains to get there,also the bad weather. I asked her to rearrange for the following day, but she insisted on going on the saturday and she went to her sisters house I then stayed home with the kids missing a days work because i did not want them to travel in those conditions. I am still so annoyed that she was even considered taking the kids out in that weather when one of them had a very upset stomach. Am I WRONG FOR THINKING LIKE THIS?. 


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You should have told your wife that it was dangerous to take the child out with  all the symptoms of getting a bad cold or the flu. Is she a stay at home mom? Tell her you have a job to feed and clothe the family so you can't just take off at the drop of a hat.Explain that you know she loves her sister and that it pleases you but she is not a single woman now and that the family comes first, especially the children.

I imagine she does miss what her sister does or has, but it was her choice to get married and have a family and that her sister probably misses that kind of loving family in her life. Have her siste call a day earlier if possible to set up a get together when the children are well and you can babysit for a couple of hours.I hope she would that considerate if she had to find a babysitter. I agree she should of stayed home that day but I also have a feeling that you had started to resent this relationship before then. Both of you are going to have to be more tolerant and understanding of the other's feeling and don't go making mountains out of mole hills.Remember to never say anything you don't mean because it can come back and hit you like a ton of bricks somewhere down the line.Good luck.

Posted 2009-11-16T03:48:16Z
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Hi,

   I totally agree with what A Brown said.  Please sit down with her and discuss these things that are bothering you.  If you can't do this together, go to a marriage counselor.  If your kids are still young, they need both of you in the home.  It's very tough for kids to grow up in a broken home.  I know that you had enough of this, but take your kids into consideration.

    Keep being tolerant of her for your kids' sake.

Take care.

Posted 2009-11-16T04:12:30Z
 
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Cool Equal justice for All

The law works but the system needs changed, We all abide by the law but sometime it failes us. The same with the goverment. God bless the USA, Brign our troops HOME safely, To the men who did not get the credit they deserve, MAY GOD WATCH OVER OUR SERVICE MEN.

Lets look at it this way YOU MARRIED YOUR WIFE not her sister the two of you got married you did not say you also took her sister. This is your wife and she should put you first as this may be wrong way of thinking. But she thinks she likes her sisters way of single way of life. To me youe wife should take a look at what you have love trust and she is married to you not her sister and she should understand that. Tell your sisterinlaw in a nice way to stay out of your marriage as to the fact of your child being sick and the weather as it was. She should not relay on your wife or expect this out of her tell your sisterinlaw to get her own life and stay out of  yours. But dont say they they can not see each outher.

Posted 2009-11-17T22:31:52Z
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