When you get married, this often means taking on the other person's assortment of family members, for better or for worse.
If you're lucky, you'll be blessed with kind, supportive in-laws who will be only too happy to welcome you into the fold. However, sadly, this isn't always the case, as one weary wife has learned all too well.
Having married her husband some 15 years ago, an anonymous woman has never felt loved or appreciated by her sisters-in-law, who she claims "never wanted us to date or get married" in the first place.
Making their dislike of her all too clear, the sisters have previously done "petty things like forgetting to include me in Christmas gift exchanges or plan family events when they know I will be working".
She's understandably felt hurt by their dismissive behaviour, which has ultimately driven her to unfriend her own husband on Facebook.
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Taking to Reddit, the frustrated woman recalled: "One year they wanted to go on a family beach vacation and asked me about my work schedule. I told them I could be off any time except the week of July 4th so of course, they planned it for the week of July 4th (they are self-employed and make their schedules)".
In another similarly cruel instance, she says the sisters actually went as far as to start up a betting pool on the couple's wedding day, taking bets on how long the marriage would last. She would later learn that "two years was the max bet".
The fed-up wife - who goes by the username u/Agreeable-Outside-99 - continued: "My husband didn’t have a Facebook until recently and said he started one because that is where I post and he wanted to follow and like my posts. He immediately friended his sisters.
"I told him I would rather them not be able to see things I post as 'friends of friends' but he refused to unfriend them so I unfriended him. He is mad at me and says I know how they are so it’s my fault for letting them get to me".
As the poster explained, she'd tried to block the sisters several years ago, however, she ended up having to unblock them after they complained to her husband about her.
Although she accepts she's now made things tricky for her husband, she explained that this was a "rash decision", made as she was "just over him never standing up for me or showing me I am more important".
Many can see exactly where she's coming from and don't understand why - after 15 years of marriage - her husband still doesn't have her back when it comes to his sisters.
One person wrote: "your in-laws are the real problem. Just because you know what they’re like, doesn’t mean it’s okay. I don’t have Facebook but I don’t think blocking your husband is a good idea either. You and your husband definitely need to talk about your relationship with the in-laws".
Another advised: "Keep him unfriended, and tell him unless he's actively supporting you to deal with their sh*t behaviour, he's not getting the privilege of seeing your Facebook. Then if he continues, get separate bedrooms".
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