Jealous in laws, how do I deal?
I (27F) married my husband (30M), 2 years ago
Admittedly, he comes from a lot of family wealth whereas I was middle class but still successful and educated and with a good career & able to stand on my own two feet. I live with his family in their very large home where we have our own space. Sometimes toe steeping occurs but I focus on our marriage and live my own life and don’t bother much with them if they have issues, luckily we have enough space to have private space as a couple
My SIL is getting married next month to someone she’s been engaged to for 3 years, my SIL doesn’t have a great career / education and her fiance also keeps opening and closing businesses, apparently earns 200k dollars from a young age but can’t buy a house yet, can’t buy his own car, and isn’t willing to spend on my SIL or even the wedding. He also wears fake designer a lot. Personally it doesn’t make sense. He has now since closed his business and it seems he struggles to hold a career down. He does not come from family money and they have a standard home where she will live with in laws too
My MIL / SIL have some sort of hate towards me for marrying into wealth whilst she has to go live somewhere where finances aren’t stable and may struggle for a long time. I know this through things my husband has said and also comments made by themselves, it seems they aren’t happy I have this life whilst she is going to have a different life , for that reason they find reasons to make my life difficult and cause issues in my marriage. I don’t feel the need to move out as I feel we have enough space here and I think these issues would be the same even if we did move out. But I don’t know why they act like I’m the reason she is marrying that guy? I didn’t tell her to marry him and it’s not my fault these are our lives. I believe in kismat and I believe nobody can take what’s yours in life from you, it’s just fate.
How do I stop them getting to me? I think it’s pure jealously whether it’s my finances, my life, my career etc
An example of what they do (petty shit) - SILs wedding shopping, my MIL didn’t let me buy expensive outfits whilst her and her daughter bought the best outfits. It’s like they want me to be second best to them. I just thought okay ? I guess I’ll just buy them myself no problem, which they weren’t happy with either. They wanted me to just wear standard outfits but fashion is everything to me, and I have very unique taste. It’s just petty