My sister thinks I’m not happy for her engagement. I think he’s a bad person.

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My sister recently got engaged to a man she has been seeing for about a year and a half. They got together before her divorce was finalized but obviously I’m gonna support her however she chooses to heal. When they initially started dating, I started to notice my sister would change a lot of her morals for him. For example, she is a very left leaning feminist. But she would listen to him openly talk about other women in a very sexual manner. And more often than not, a degrading way. She also thinks it’s charming that he essentially bullies any person he’s around. He’s the type of person that tries to pick out flaws in everything someone says and make them feel dumb. My sister has never found that behavior to be acceptable until now. Recently, we were on the phone and he pushed his way into our conversation about stay at home moms. I’m not gonna get into the exact discussion but he basically said stay at home moms are pointless and that any woman who has a separate bank account from their partner is preparing for divorce. Which is wild because my sister talks about how she wants to be a stay home mom. Today, she was talking about how much she loves him and how he’s the best man and I couldn’t help myself. I let a few negative comments about him slip and now she thinks I’m not happy for her. I feel really bad. We’ve had a few blow up fights about him before.(we used to live together and he tried to get her to abandon our lease). But I feel like we’ve been in such a good place. And I don’t wanna lose that. What do I do?

Comments

  1. GreenStuffGrows Avatar

    I’m sorry love, you already lost it.

    And of course you’re not happy for her. He sounds like an absolute dog egg. 

    I’d go with “I love you and I will continue to love you regardless of your choice of man, but I will never see what you see in him, and I’m concerned for your future.”

  2. ElegantSpace2808 Avatar

    If you love someone, its best to be honest with them. But ultimately they make their own decisions.

  3. ProfessorDistinct835 Avatar

    You did exactly the right thing. Just make it clear that you’re there for her since eventually this relationship will go down in flames.

  4. cheerleader88 Avatar

    It’s very difficult to detach.
    I’ve watched my best friend struggle with a partner who has BPD, can’t keep a job and overdosed three times, but of course it was accidentally….
    We rarely talk about him when I see her, and I know she holds the bad stuff about him in.
    I try and hold space for when she realizes.