My sister Emily is getting married soon. We\u2019ve always been close, but after my breakup with Chris \u2014 my boyfriend of 5 years \u2014 things shifted. We split because he moved overseas for work, and I wasn\u2019t willing to relocate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday, Emily told me Chris is not only invited to the wedding but will be a groomsman.<\/em> Then she said I\u2019m not<\/strong> invited due to a \u201climited guest list\u201d and because my presence might \u201ccause drama.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had planned to pay for half of her wedding as my gift, but after being uninvited in favor of my ex, I told her she\u2019d have to manage without my financial help. She blew up, calling me petty and selfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now the family is divided. Some say I\u2019m right, others say I\u2019m letting my breakup affect her big day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Am I really the bad guy here?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sister Emily is getting married soon. We\u2019ve always been close, but after my breakup with Chris \u2014 my boyfriend of 5 years \u2014 things shifted. We… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22635,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22632\/revisions\/22635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}