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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:05 PM
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What do you call the person who marries your brother?
A B**** - if it's the same sort of person that married mine.
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Shoeempress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:07 PM
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1. Funny, that's what I call my MIL
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:09 PM
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3. They must be from the same DNA pool. (Unfortunately).
:puke:
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:08 PM
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2. gullible
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:12 PM
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4. Cuñada
Spanish for sister-in-law
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:14 PM
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6. Unfortunately - the person I am thinking of doesn't want to be any sort
of sister to her husband's family.

O well - her loss.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:24 PM
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13. My deepest sympathies
All of my sisters-in-law, on both sides, turned out to be great people. I have four cuñadas, two on my side, two on my wife's side.

I hope, for the sake of your brother, you can be civil to your sister-in-law even when she is not. If you love your brother, do this for him.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:32 PM
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19. Unfortunately, we no longer speak to one another.
This has been going on for years. They have a 21-yr old son whom I last saw when he was 3. They have a 16 yr. old daughter I've never seen.
This came to a head during the illness & death of our mother.

That's life, though.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:45 PM
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21. That is very sad
I mourn your losses, your mother's and your sister-in-laws.

I offer you, as solace, this poem by a the Cuban poet and revolutionary, Jose Marti:

White Roses

I harvest only white roses,
whether in June or in January,
for sincere friends,
that extend their honest hands.

And for the cruel ones that rip,
the living heart from my chest,
neither thistle nor poison ivy do I harvest,
I harvest only white roses.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 09:51 PM
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24. Thank you - it is very touching.
I shall print it and keep it nearby.

:pals:
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:14 PM
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5. Perhaps a bigamist? If the person who married your brother is the
person who is married to mine? :evilgrin:
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:15 PM
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8. I HOPE there can be only one RENAE!!!
God forbid.
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 07:11 PM
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22. My husband's ex-wife... but she spelled it differently.
Life has a way of getting even. She now suffers from an autoimmune disease that will eventually criple her. Even when she was a royal pain in the, ahmm, sit upon, I wouldn't have wished that on her...
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 09:50 PM
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23. True - I would never wish illness upon anyone - even my
'ex'-brother's wife.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:15 PM
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7. Unfortunate....
I feel for her, my brother is a total freep and acts like a 5 year old. I only pray that he doesn't succeed in poisoning my niece's mind (5 years old). My sister-in-law is great, it's my brother who's the problem.
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:16 PM
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9. unfortunate and deluded

:D
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:17 PM
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10. Yup - deluded fits!
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:19 PM
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11. A Whiny P-Whipper Extraordinaire
now ask me about their spawn
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:20 PM
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12. So - you DO know RENAE?
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bettyellen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:43 PM
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20. LOL. Gail's twin sister?
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:24 PM
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14. I call the person who married my brother my sister-in-law.
But I consider her the same as my blood sisters.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:26 PM
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15. You are extremely lucky - I'm green with envy.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:27 PM
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16. I am lucky, that's true.
My brothers-in-law are all pretty great too.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:27 PM
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17. Crazy
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 05:28 PM
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18. Totally!
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Lady Effingbroke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 09:52 PM
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25. extremely unfortunate!
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:01 PM
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26. Don't care for your brother much?
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:02 PM
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27. If I can't say something nice about someone, I'll just have to say....
...nothing at all....
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:03 PM
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28. I wish I were that gracious.
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:05 PM
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29. Trust me. I know how you feel.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:06 PM
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30. Most times I don't think of them - today brought up memories of
my brother and then THAT person also came to mind.
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1monster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:00 AM
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33. "If you can't say anything nice about anyone, come sit by me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth }(
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Robeson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:27 AM
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34. And that sounds exactly like something she would say.....
....BTW, she was also a cocaine freak. Which I guess would fit her well!...;-)
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:11 PM
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31. Mentally ill
unfortunately, depression coupled with signs of childhood abuse. And I'm pretty certain she herself abuses my brother (a very kind-hearted person) and her sons.

I feel awful because most of the time I can't really stand to be around her; I feel like I'm having the life force sucked out of me.
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Bullwinkle925 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-10-05 10:15 PM
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32. I'm sorry you have to go through that. It's awful.
Has your brother ever thought of leaving the situation?
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:31 AM
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35. Fair game if your brother passes out?
i kid I kid
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-11-05 01:31 AM
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36. A saint
Edited on Sat Jun-11-05 01:32 AM by fortyfeetunder
She put up with my brother and they are doing pretty good for 30 years of marriage.

But if you asked my husband's sister what she called me, I'd bet it would be along the lines, the woman who took my "$ugar daddy" (money source) from me...go figure...
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