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Has anyone ever had a sibling go through a divorce, but you still stayed in touch with the sibling's ex?

My brother and his wife are splitting up, and I'm very distraught over it. My sister-in-law has been like a sister to me for 16 years and I can't imagine her not being at family events and things. I know that the relationship will change and I'm heartbroken. I'm heartbroken for them and what they're going through and for their six kids, but I am grieving over our relationship as well. How could it not change? Is it possible to remain close friends with her no longer married to my brother?

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  • 8 years ago
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    I think it'll be awkward at first but I think you should, especially since she is the mother to your nieces or nephews. Just try not to talk about your brother.

  • 4 years ago

    ok, i bypass to respond to this slightly extra heavily than it style of feels different human beings have. relationship siblings in western society has a good cultural stigma against it. whether, it has no longer continually been appeared down on in each and all of the international. Many households in Arabia (now quite a few international places) married completely interior the family individuals, which, on an identical time as a sprint hectic to many cutting-area westerners, replaced into actual an particularly good subject as a results of fact their genes have been organic, and that they stored them that way. In cutting-area western society whether, relationship siblings is an particularly undesirable thought, for the easy actuality that inbreeding is particularly undesirable with the present genetic swimming pools. the project with inbreeding is that uncommon recessive genetic subjects, on an identical time as often moderated via genetic mixing between 2 households, are a lot extra probable to ensue while inbreeding happens between 2 kinfolk, fantastically as close as a brother and sister. If the two of your dad and mom is a provider for a recessive illness, that are the case with out your or their expertise, there's a a million/sixteen risk that any given newborn would have that illness and a a million/8 risk that he or she is a provider. temporarily, on an identical time because it must be an beautiful prospect, and would have been universal specially cultures, it is not in western society, and for a good reason. Edit: properly, sounds like that's irrelevant now... yet i will shop on anyhow, on the grounds that's a good remark on what I *thought* this replaced into approximately :P

  • 8 years ago

    Yes stay friends. Keep conversations away from anything to do with what caused the divorce.

  • 8 years ago

    There is nothing wrong with that. Don't create drama where none exists.

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