Sis is unhinged
Dear Prudence,
I was really excited to introduce my new boyfriend to my family this past Christmas.
We had a wonderful celebration, everyone got on like a house on fire until, not for the first time, my sister got super drunk and threw herself at my guy and tried to stick her tongue down his throat. He was horrified and, according to my brother who witnessed the carnage (and hasn’t stopped laughing), gagged, pushed her away and said: “Urrrrggghhhh… no… yuck… no, no, no.” Well.
My sister has decided that she is deeply offended and that his response was humiliating and unnecessarily cruel. She’s throwing an incredible tantrum, demanding an apology, bombarding me and my family with messages calling my poor boyfriend “an abuser” and worse, threatening to never come to family events if he’s present, etc, etc, etc. He’s horrified by the fallout, and I’m exhausted by another one of her dramas. How do I put him at ease and close the cycle on this nonsense? If it was just me, I’d ignore her tantrum until she got bored, but he’s trying to fit in with my family and incredibly sad.
Re: Sis is unhinged
Sis, let's be quite clear that if the actions were reversed it would be attempted sexual contact at minimum and police might be called. If anyone owes an apology it's you.
I wouldn't go where she goes.