Re:What do you make of this?? heelblue: My relationship with her brother was poor at best. He and I never did see eye to eye on anything. Her brother and her were close and there were some issues there that strongly contributed to major problems in our marriage. As far as the rest of the family goes, I was closest to her parents, but I still only spoke to them a few times a year. The rest of her siblings I spoke to maybe once a year. There wasn't a lot of closeness there. I don't and have never felt like I was really close to the whole family. That is why this thing caught me off guard.