Do I have a right to keep popping up and saying, "Please don't forget all about me?" for all time, or does there come a point where I'm just not allowed to have contact with anyone in his family anymore, because I've been replaced by OW? I was thinking about this stuff on the bus today and started to feel tears well up in my eyes. Thank God for sunglasses!
I wish I knew the answer to this question. I don't know if or how you are expected to instantly detach from people who were like your second family for years. I have been very close to my SIL - she was a bridesmaid at our wedidng - and BIL, as well as MIL and FIL. I know what you mean about the popping up and saying "don't forget about me" thing - it's so hard to imagine just being replaced with a new daughter-in-law, after so many years and so many memories. Honestly, I don't know how people do it.
No advice again, sorry, just commiseration. Glad to hear it went well with your IL's, though, and they truly seem keen to maintain a relationship with you, so I say run with it.
Me: 29 H: 30 Together: 12 years Married: 1.5 years No kids Bomb: November 29, 2006 Separated: December 8, 2006 OW: 22 year old Swedish blond - I'm not even joking!
