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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I got into an argument with some coworkers for calling my biological brother's (then) ex-wife's brother my brother-in-law.

So I agree with you, but I guess other people are a bit bigger on semantics than we are.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Your brother's ex-wife is your ex-sister-in-law. Are there people who don't call their siblings spouse their in-laws?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Looks like this case wasn't sibling's spouse. It's sibling's spouse's sibling. In the US, they should not be technically your in-law. But I don't think it's weird to use it here and kinda surprised people cared.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, I personally wouldn't argue with them about that. People are really overly pedantic. I wouldn't call my brother-in-law's siblings my in-laws but I don't know either of my brothers-in-laws siblings very well

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