THE SISTER'S BOUNDARY

The husband had barely stepped through the family home when the sister snapped, told him to put the food in the garage, and then hit him with, "don't $&@#ing talk to her."

He had only stopped by to drop something off.

According to the poster, a 30-year-old newly married mother, the scene left her husband shaken. He said the sister, 24, was rude the second he arrived. She told him their parents were not home, even though they were in the kitchen. She directed him to leave the food in the garage instead of simply handing it over. And when he tried to make small talk, she shut it down and stormed out.

That was the first time the poster had seen her sister behave like that toward him. It also made no sense to her.

Before the wedding, the poster had done the obvious check-in. She asked whether her sister had any issues with the husband. The answer was no. The sister said "he seemed nice." The poster took that at face value and later asked her to be maid of honor.

So when the husband came home looking rattled, the poster called her sister immediately. The sister hung up.

The messages that followed escalated fast. The sister eventually replied that she "hates him, has always hated him and her only boundary is that he never talks to her." When the poster asked why, the sister said she didn't need a reason. "She doesn't need a reason, she just doesn't like him and doesn't want him around," the poster summarized.

The poster pushed back. If the couple visited their parents, it would be strange if the husband could not even greet the sister. The sister's answer was blunt: "I'm sick of you having a stranger in her home."

The poster tried to find a compromise and said she would stop asking her husband to drop things off without her present. But the sister cut that off too. "That was not the point," she said. "I don't want him talking to me at all."

At that point, the poster said she would try to keep them apart, but warned that this would affect the sister's access to the baby. Her husband would not be comfortable with their son being around someone who hated him, and it would also affect the grandparents' time with the child.

That set off another blast. The sister accused the poster of "playing the victim," said she was acting like a "*itch," and insisted the poster was "trampling the only boundary that she has set for herself."

The poster says the family knows what happened. Their mother may speak to the sister, while their father wants to wait because he recently had a heart attack. The poster also says her sister has a history of a bad temper, but nothing like this has happened before.

Now she's left asking the same question as everyone else: is there any way to fix it?