I just want to echo the similar experience that Gypsy related. My brother also was not very supportive of my attempts and hopes to reconcile my marriage. He tried to equate my wife with his ex-wife and it just was not the same. In that matter, I defended my wife and it created some animosity. It is as Michelle talks about in the first part of DR - friends and family just want to see your suffering not last and sometimes want you to take the shortcut. They dont know the inner workings of the marriage as Saffie states.
