Dear Queenie,
My brother and his fiancée got married last year and for months before the wedding nobody in either family could talk about anything else. My fiancé and I had been engaged for a longer time than they had, but for several reasons we hadn’t scheduled our wedding yet, so this was kind of hard for us to get through.
We finally were able to start planning our wedding and then my brother and his wife announced that she is pregnant with my parents’ first grandchild and the baby is due some time around the date we have chosen for our wedding and now the new baby is all anyone talks about.
Queenie, is this fair or are we being selfish?—Ignored bride-to-be
Dear Bride-to-be,
Talk about sibling rivalry! Do you really think your brother and his wife deliberately planned her pregnancy so that the baby would arrive close to your wedding date and take all the attention away from you and your husband-to-be?
Go ahead with your wedding plans and try to stop “keeping score” on who is getting more attention. You will feel much better if you can manage to do so.
