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I am ready to call off my engagement to my fiancé. The problem is that she is extremely close with her sister. I have shown nothing but complete respect toward her whole family while I was dating my fiancé until we got engaged. When I got engaged to her she came up to me 2 weeks later and had a serious talk with me that after she accepted my marriage proposal, she spoke with her sister and her sister asked her if she is sure that she is marrying the right person. Her sister is questioning if I am a right person ? I mean what is it to her sister? Is she marrying and going to live with her or me? My fiancé should have a mind of her own and tell her sister to stay out of it. I am ready to take my chances of breaking off the engagement if she has her sister questioning her if I am the right person. Know that I can find someone else who does not have questioning siblings . If I end up breaking up this will be her sisters fault if I tell her the reason that i refuse to be with someone who is questioning that if i am the right person and I showed nothing but respect for her complete family. Am I right?
I too think that you should call off this engagement. But not for any of the reasons you give.
You are very immature if you don't know why a sister would be having a heart to heart with her sister about a pending marriage. You sound very controlling and too immature to be getting married imo
Think about it....If you really feel this way, just end the engagement...it would be for the best.
Well you don't know the whole story do you cant make a decision like that's. Have you been in person with my fiancé and me ? NO!!!!!!!!
OP, nobody responding knows the whole story, and nobody responding has been in person with your fiancée and you. Obviously.
Yet, you are perfectly accepting of the couple of responses that you've gotten that you happen to feel support your position. It's all the people who think your response is extreme or unwarranted who are getting the "Shut up! You don't know my LIFE!" treatment. Funny how the handful of posts that indicate that they are from people who are at least somewhat in your corner magically, apparently, DO know your whole story and therefore have increased insight.
Your fiance is a grown woman that can make her own decisions/mistakes; I dont get why her family cant respect that and just be happy for you both.
People can't stand for others to be happy. If he doesn't get along with her sister I don't blame the OP for calling off the engagement. I wouldn't want to be around someone I don't get along with.
OP, I've read every post in this thread, and not once did you write that you are in love with your fiancé. However, several times you mentioned calling off the engagement and finding someone else "who does not have questioning siblings."
If you truly loved her, you wouldn't be so quick to talk of dumping her and finding someone else. If you don't love her deeply, then you should not marry her.
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Dude, why the rage? The situation doesn't warrant all the anger you're showing on this thread. Frankly, I'm picking up something of an autism-spectrum vibe from you. This level of anger, peppering your posts with exclamation points, isn't normal. Is anger an issue with you, in general? Or is this the only time you've gotten mad?
If I were engaged, and my fiance said, "My brother asked me if I was sure about marrying you," my reaction would be, "Why would he ask that? Does he have a problem with me? Or does he think you don't know what you're doing?"
People don't just toss out questions like that unless they have some kind of reservation. My point is that unless something truly bad is going on, like abuse, it's not their place to express those reservations. They're not the ones marrying the person.
At the very least, the fiancee lacks any sense of diplomacy and common sense. She made the conversation between herself and her sister the OP's business when she (very stupidly) mentioned it to him. How on earth could she have possibly expected anything positive to come of that?
My sister and my last SO didn't like each other, at all. But they didn't know the half of their feelings about one another because I wasn't so naive and/or stupid as to throw gasoline on a lit match. It's on the fiancee to run interference between her family and the OP for the sake of keeping peace.
From this experience, the OP can take away two things:
1. His fiancee tells the business of their relationship to her sister.
2. His fiancee tells the business of her relationship with her sister to him.
That is someone who doesn't know when or how to keep her mouth shut, and instead will sow the seeds of conflict between him and her family, whether she means to or not. Hey, she already has.
I am ready to call off my engagement to my fiancé. The problem is that she is extremely close with her sister. I have shown nothing but complete respect toward her whole family while I was dating my fiancé until we got engaged. When I got engaged to her she came up to me 2 weeks later and had a serious talk with me that after she accepted my marriage proposal, she spoke with her sister and her sister asked her if she is sure that she is marrying the right person. Her sister is questioning if I am a right person ? I mean what is it to her sister? Is she marrying and going to live with her or me? My fiancé should have a mind of her own and tell her sister to stay out of it. I am ready to take my chances of breaking off the engagement if she has her sister questioning her if I am the right person. Know that I can find someone else who does not have questioning siblings . If I end up breaking up this will be her sisters fault if I tell her the reason that i refuse to be with someone who is questioning that if i am the right person and I showed nothing but respect for her complete family. Am I right?
If you call off the engagement, her sister will be right: you aren't the right person. If you want to prove you're right, you would marry her and continue to love her and show her sister she has nothing to worry about.
I don't see anything wrong with sisters being close—some sisters are close; others are catty and steal each other's clothes and lovers. I would be more concerned if I saw real examples of her sister being meddlesome, as opposed to merely looking out for her.
Breaking the engagment under those cirumstances is an act of an individual not a married couple. Talk with your fiance.... come up with a single approach to the sister.... act on it as a couple. Believe me.... in married life there are a lot worse issues to deal with than an intrusive family member... you have to work as couple to solve problems.
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