Week 7 Post 1

Dealing with the issue of trust is something that I have been up against this past week with a family member on my fiance's side of the family. She had taken complete advantage of his younger sister and stole from her, and I wanted to protect my sister-in-law. The cousin denied, denied, denied and even tried to put blame on his sister. This happened several months ago, and my sister-in-law hates confrontation so she totally let her get away without any sort of conversation about it. With our wedding coming up, my fiance and I agreed that the trust was lost in his cousin and we didn't trust her on our big day with gifts and money easily accessible. It makes me very sad because she and I used to get along great, and with her now trying to get back into the family unit without an apology is upsetting to me. In order for trust to be restored, she has to have an open conversation with us and be able to own up to what she did. Without that acknowledgement of her stealing from my sister-in-law, I think trust would be hard to get back again. But we all know that life is short, and with proper apologies and working on trust again, we will gladly accept her apology and move forward.