I have a feeling I will be writing on here ALOT this weekend. I'm hoping maybe my fiance will realize that I have been right all along and his sister is still best friends with his ex. I don't really care, except since I first met his sister, she made it well known that she prefers his ex to me. My fiance has tried unsuccessfully to convince me that she's not really friends with her and they just talk once in awhile. Today when we were over her house she was trying to find her remote so we offered to help her. There in the living room, on a table by itself, surrounded by candles, was a picture of his ex with their son. She doesn't have any pictures of her brother up, no other pictures of her nephew up, but she has a huge picture of my fiance's ex and their son on a table, by itself. Talk about an awkward moment. My fiance wasn't exactly thrilled with it. Tomorrow night is looking to be even more awkward. His ex was diagnosed with colon cancer a few months ago so a group of her family is throwing a benefit for her. Originally we weren't going to go, but his mom (who hasn't flown to see either her son or daughter in 4 years) flew out to go to the benefit because his sister is on the planning committee and convinced her mom she should be here in person. I think it is nice of her to fly out here to go to the benefit, but let's be honest here, you won't fly out to see your kids and grand-kids, but you'll fly out to go to a benefit for your son's ex when you could have easily sent a donation? So now my boyfriend is obligated to go to the benefit more so than before. I therefore am obligated to go. We've had plenty of fights over this in the last few weeks. He doesn't want me to go because people will talk about me if I'm there. I feel obligated to go because people will talk about me if I don't go, only I'll look like an even bigger B**ch if I don't go. He doesn't seem to understand that. I wouldn't mind going if I thought it would be drama free. Unfortunately as we've seen with the surprise birthday party fiasco and the wedding intervention, that probably won't happen. For some reason everyone seems to think that just because she has cancer, I need to become her best friend. I don't want to be her friend. I can be civil and polite, but do I really need to be friends with her? It just irritates me because half the people who keep telling me I need to be friends with her are the same ones who were bashing her not too long ago, but now that she has cancer they all want to be her friends. And please don't try to tell me that having cancer has changed her into a better person because I don't think it has. She told my fiance that we would be having full custody of their son for two months while she underwent surgery and she is playing the cancer card to try and get him to pay her child support while we have him for those two months. I don't think so. She gets free day care and she won't have any other expenses for him since he's on free state health insurance so why would we be paying her child support if we are clothing and feeding him for two months? I'm not looking forward to tomorrow night or spending the rest of the weekend with his mother and sister. I think I'm going to need to do a lot of venting this weekend...