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Kid Shaming My Sister IRL | The Advisory - Ep.23
In this episode we chat about 2023's energy - new year cool me, Mr Avatar & Jimmy Cameron's Avatar 2, not speaking January, Matthew McConaughey does an Ad read, trill books and social media being more important than your family.
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This week's feature advice seeker:
I (f40) freely admit I LOVE social media and pretty much share my life, as per many people. I’m very proud of my accomplishments and deserve to share them. I have 2 beautiful kids (mid teens) who I raise well, I train hard and take a lot of care over my appearance and clothes choices. I work hard and look after my beautiful home. We’re also lucky to enjoy nice holidays. I share most of this as well as venting about say poor customer service and most of my friends expect this. I accept this isn’t for everyone but they can just scroll past.
This involves my sister’s SIL (her DHs sister). Let’s call her Sam (45). We are linked on SM and see each other occasionally at my sisters. Sister and Sam post a bit but not much and rarely comment on my posts. Up to them.
Sister has 2 kids, late teens. Sam does not have kids. I heard unofficially from sis a few years ago that she’d had fertility treatment which hadn’t worked. We’ve never spoken about it.
Sister’s daughters ADORE Sam. She’s also their Aunty. When she’s there I don’t get a look-in. She spoils them. I think she does it on purpose.
We were at sister’s house for a pre-Christmas party.
I was taking photos and eldest niece (16) wanted to vet them before I posted them. This went on a bit too long (she looked good in all of them). My daughter does the same and I eventually made an executive decision to post the perfect picture anyway. Niece was upset. Sam took her side (sis was out of the room) and said it was up to niece. I said she couldn’t always get her own way, she needed to learn life was about compromise.
Sam said we weren’t the Kardashians ! and niece had the right of veto.
Calling me Kim Kardashian felt so disrespectful and I said I was proud of family and she would understand if she’d had her own kids. She flinched but didn’t really respond and was icy to me all evening. My DH apologised to her on my behalf (!) which she didn’t even accept, and niece actually shouted at me.
After my sister and even BIL were angry when they found out (called me later). But I didn’t refer to her infertility and what she said was really disrespectful, as if she was better than me.
Am I really in the wrong? What do I do now?
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If you have a question, send us an email at [email protected] or find us on the socials below.
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blackswansociety
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blkswansociety
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blkswansoci...
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/blkswansociety
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This episode was streamed live on Twitch and YouTube on 05.01.23.
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00:00 - It begins!
00:23 - New year, cool me
07:38 - Mr Avatar
18:51 - The Post-Pandora Blues
22:25 - Avatar 2: Inside the Writers Room
24:40 - David goes to the movies
27:32 - The Best of Cinema Advertising
29:35 - We don't speak January - getting into shape for 2023
33:00 - Matthew McConaughey does an ad read
44:29 - Question: Writing a book about maths
47:25 - The difference between cool books, dope books and trill books
49:55 - A man dedicated to his craft
51:31 - Feature Question: Kid shaming my sister IRL
1:15:48 - The future of social media
1:18:10 - Outro
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By The AdvisoryIn this episode we chat about 2023's energy - new year cool me, Mr Avatar & Jimmy Cameron's Avatar 2, not speaking January, Matthew McConaughey does an Ad read, trill books and social media being more important than your family.
---
This week's feature advice seeker:
I (f40) freely admit I LOVE social media and pretty much share my life, as per many people. I’m very proud of my accomplishments and deserve to share them. I have 2 beautiful kids (mid teens) who I raise well, I train hard and take a lot of care over my appearance and clothes choices. I work hard and look after my beautiful home. We’re also lucky to enjoy nice holidays. I share most of this as well as venting about say poor customer service and most of my friends expect this. I accept this isn’t for everyone but they can just scroll past.
This involves my sister’s SIL (her DHs sister). Let’s call her Sam (45). We are linked on SM and see each other occasionally at my sisters. Sister and Sam post a bit but not much and rarely comment on my posts. Up to them.
Sister has 2 kids, late teens. Sam does not have kids. I heard unofficially from sis a few years ago that she’d had fertility treatment which hadn’t worked. We’ve never spoken about it.
Sister’s daughters ADORE Sam. She’s also their Aunty. When she’s there I don’t get a look-in. She spoils them. I think she does it on purpose.
We were at sister’s house for a pre-Christmas party.
I was taking photos and eldest niece (16) wanted to vet them before I posted them. This went on a bit too long (she looked good in all of them). My daughter does the same and I eventually made an executive decision to post the perfect picture anyway. Niece was upset. Sam took her side (sis was out of the room) and said it was up to niece. I said she couldn’t always get her own way, she needed to learn life was about compromise.
Sam said we weren’t the Kardashians ! and niece had the right of veto.
Calling me Kim Kardashian felt so disrespectful and I said I was proud of family and she would understand if she’d had her own kids. She flinched but didn’t really respond and was icy to me all evening. My DH apologised to her on my behalf (!) which she didn’t even accept, and niece actually shouted at me.
After my sister and even BIL were angry when they found out (called me later). But I didn’t refer to her infertility and what she said was really disrespectful, as if she was better than me.
Am I really in the wrong? What do I do now?
---
If you have a question, send us an email at [email protected] or find us on the socials below.
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@blackswansociety
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blkswansociety
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blkswansoci...
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/blkswansociety
---
This episode was streamed live on Twitch and YouTube on 05.01.23.
---
00:00 - It begins!
00:23 - New year, cool me
07:38 - Mr Avatar
18:51 - The Post-Pandora Blues
22:25 - Avatar 2: Inside the Writers Room
24:40 - David goes to the movies
27:32 - The Best of Cinema Advertising
29:35 - We don't speak January - getting into shape for 2023
33:00 - Matthew McConaughey does an ad read
44:29 - Question: Writing a book about maths
47:25 - The difference between cool books, dope books and trill books
49:55 - A man dedicated to his craft
51:31 - Feature Question: Kid shaming my sister IRL
1:15:48 - The future of social media
1:18:10 - Outro