You want to stay on-topic and avoid any judgment because youll only make them get defensive.

To put it simply, your in-laws need to know that youre serious and that you mean business.

Talk to your spouse about how this exclusion affects you and explore ways to address it together.

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If the exclusion persists, consider whether its worth attending events where youre not genuinely welcome.

Naturally, you want to be liked, respected, and accepted.

Social cohesion used to be how people survived.

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Thats a lot of chronic stress and unhappiness to live with.

Real lifemight not work like a Disney animation (its far less dramatic!

They can becruel, entitled, and arrogant.

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Unfortunately, not everyone is reasonable or rational.

That might mean that you simply wont spend much time with your in-laws in the foreseeable future.

Would you have done anything differently?

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Some folks thought that she should have done things slightly differently

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