'I married my bully's sister': Redditor prepares to get revenge on homophobic brother-in-law

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    Font - I Married My Bully's Sister I just needed to tell someone because I was talking to my wife about it recently. I'm from a very small, very bigoted Southern town, and it wasn't hard for others to find fault in anything I did. Also, due to the size of the town, I was in the same class with the same people from beginning to end.
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    Font - I had a lot of bullies back then: people who would hurl slurs at me, people who would purposefully ostracize me, teachers and staff who would overlook it because, "they're just playing around"... There was also the uptick in homophobic slurs when we hit high school.
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    Font - Now, I'm a proud non-binary pagan, but back then, I was terrified of anyone knowing that I even liked girls. The one girl who was openly lesbian in our school was tortured both verbally and physically, and the school overlooked it because, "she was already troubled." What sense that made, I will never know. Regardless, being publicly outed as anything not-straight in that town was a guarantee that my life would be
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    Font - There was this one particular bully who did it. He certainly wasn't the originator of the rumor, but because he was one of the more connected students in town, his words held a lot of weight. If he said it on a Monday, by Tuesday the entire town was calling me sorts of homophobic slurs that I didn't even really know what they meant. From seventh grade until I was "baptized to fix me," I was everything from a predator to a to a witch, and those were the gentle words.
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    Font - I didn't find out it was him, however, until AFTER I married his sister. I didn't marry my angel out of spite towards him. He wasn't even a thought. My wife is smart, funny, beautiful, kind, and all around the most amazing person I've ever met. We'd met in passing while we lived in our hometown, but we became so much closer after we moved away. We knew who each other were because in a town the size of ours, everyone knew everyone's great-grandparents, but it never registered what it would
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    Font - It wasn't until she was telling me about her plans to visit her brother now that he was about to have a baby that it clicked. I married my homophobic bully's sister. The AMMO. The JOKES. The CLAPBACKS. I have missed so many opportunities to rub in this hole's face that I got with his sister. I am a FOOL.
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    Font - I came to reddit because I can't lament to my wife about it anymore, but I can't get over my absolute lack of proper revenge for this. I also don't know how to go about it other than going, "hey, you remember that time you made my life a living for being gay? Well, I your sister so maybe you were on to something."
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    Font - markbrev 23 hr. ago You know you've already got the absolute best revenge possible over him right? ✩ 4.7K Reply Share
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    Font - muffiewrites 23 hr. ago Exactly this. His sister is in a happy, fulfilling, wonderful relationship with a non-heteronormative person he used to make up stuff about. Be happy with your wife. He's either going to be stewing in his bigot juices about it all or he's going to be happy for his sister and treat you like an important person. Either way, you win because you're married to a wonderful person. 1.8k Reply Share
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    Font - Riakrus 19 hr. ago best revenge is living well, party on my friend. 237 B Reply Share
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    Font - 3 urmyleander 23 hr. ago Best revenge would be to make sure he knows you know but in a roundabout way then do nothing just allude to it once in awhile, he will spend the rest of his life anticipating revenge that never comes. Get real friendly with his wife too, in a platonic way but make him paranoid AF. 1.1k Reply Share
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    Font - chico85t 23 hr. ago Yes keep him guessing forever, I love the delayed mental torture this could cause him, or he just won't care anymore.... 233 Reply
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    Font - J_2993 22 hr. ago Homie, you and your wife are living your best life that's the best clap back. It's like yeah you can go out and stuff all day, but that will solve nothing. Living your best life and being happy that's the best Clapback. 437 Reply Share
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    Font - exhaustedandlost2 OP. 20 hr. ago You're right. Every day that I get to spend with her is an absolute gift. She's the only reason why I'm starting to believe in, "living well is the best revenge." 295 Reply Share
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    Font - iggyface 19 hr. ago You won. And the best revenge is just moving on and loving your life. It's a cliche for a reason.
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    Font - heardnotseen01 - 17 hr. ago Go with your wife to visit your brother... And then have really loud s in the guest room.
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    Font - lychigo 22 hr. ago I mean. You're not going to do that right. Because if you plant a seed of doubt in your wife's mind that you got with her as revenge against her brother.... 154 Reply Share
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    Font - exhaustedandlost2 OP. 20 hr. ago I'm not worried about that. She knows full well why I got with her. Due to both our families, we were/are very communicative. I also still tease her because she didn't know I was flirting with her for a year 128 Reply Share

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