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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Straight-Ad4042 on 2023-08-25 18:43:55.

My brother has a horrific track record with relationships. He has been married three times (technically four but that one was annulled so is no longer considered to count) and he has been engaged a grand total of 7 times, including this one. My niece, his only child, does not come from any of those relationships. She was so lucky to be born before he started his string of relationships /s. She has been painfully aware of most of them. Only two of the engagements happened before she was old enough to remember but one of the two came back and tried to act like my niece would remember her despite her being in her life for less than four months when she was only two!!

Anyway, current fiancée and my brother have been together for five months, they’re already engaged and we were invited dress shopping. By me, I mean my niece, my mom, my older sister and I. My brother paid my niece to attend because she wasn’t going to. While at the appointment my brother’s fiancée, let’s call her Kelly for the sake of the post, well Kelly was trying to get my niece to act more excited than she was. She’d focus on getting her opinion and made a suggestion of matching mother/daughter accessories for the wedding. My niece is 20 btw. Kelly was really pushing for my niece to be more present and eventually she snapped and asked her why is she not more excited for the new chapter in “their family” and excited to get a new mom. My niece replied that Kelly was nothing special and she’s still not holding her breath that they make it down the aisle and she’s not going to be excited for stepmommy number 100. She also added that even if her dad and Kelly make it down the aisle, this is not even close to his first marriage and she knows him and knows there is nothing different about this relationship so she knows it will be over within the next three years. Kelly looked so shocked but I laughed and so did my sister. Mom couldn’t take her eyes off something very interesting in the corner.

Kelly was so offended that my sister and I laughed and she said we should be teaching our niece better. My brother said nothing. But Kelly demanded an apology.

AITA?