This is a photo on my (f28)Instagram. My brother in law (m42) reacted to it in DM, and said the above. I feel I replied normally, but now my sister (f39) apparently saw the message and is saying that I engaged in hot discussions with her man! I am myself married and I feel so bad now. I told my husband who said I did nothing wrong. Any idea how I could approach my sister ?

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Egh, what a fkn creep. Tell your sister and her husband he should start being a normal person instead of a weirdo, unless he’s looking to get in trouble some day.

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Your BIL is a creep and your sister is trippin because she’s in denial about it

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Call the pervert out HARD to everyone.
Claim your victimhood and make all other relatives aware.
If he’s doing it to you, he has no boundaries: he has/will do to others.

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Look, I try to see the good in everything, but there’s no other way to look at it, that first message just comes off as creepy as fuck. Idk how close you are with your sister but it sounds like her man should be the person in trouble here.

Edit: thinking about this some more, if both of you were not in a relationship it would still be on the creepy side imo but I guess that could be construed as a pickup line. But in this situation ? Ew.

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He’s being a little perv to his wife’s younger sister but it’s easier for her to be mad with you than admit the person she chose to marry is a perv.

It is evident that he engaged. Tell her to sort this out with her man.

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Thank you! He met my sister when I was 12yo so I see him as an older brother for me. This is what makes me sad as I feel, in hindsight, that he clearly wanted me to start talking about my body somehow

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It’s clear that these feelings of brotherhood are not mutual. I don’t have a sister but I don’t think if I had one I’d be thirsting over her sassy little dresses like that lmao

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Yeah, it’s a total breach of trust towards both you and your sister, and you have every reason to be upset by it and to take your distance from him.

It’s fucked in many ways - that you’ve known each other since you were twelve, that he chooses to creep on his partners sister for some reason, that he chooses to send creepy texts to women behind her back, and that he is creeping people out by sending weird texts at all. There’s a lot to be upset about and little to tolerate here.

Your response is normal. We try to avoid conflict.

Your sister’s reaction is not so strange - he betrayed her and revealed himself as a total creep, but it’s a lot to process so it’s easier for her to pin it on you than to reevaluate her entire life. It’s a normal reaction and part of the psychology making abusive and unhealthy relationships possible.

My recommendation would be to not allow men to be passive bystanders to their creepy behaviour. He is the problem here, and your sister is going through something where it’s hard to think straight. Try to be patient with her. If this becomes primarily a conflict between you and your sister he has succeeded in replicating some extremely formalistic bullshit.

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Yeah, he contacted and he is salivating, but she is somehow in the wrong.

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