And, sorry to be a thread spammer, I'll slow down and read the whole post next time. He does stick up for me. Until his mother started dying, he was barely on speaking terms with them over it. He does what he can, short of outright cutting them off. It's a cultural thing. You just don't do that in India.

I know that this, too, shall pass. And then he and I can set about ignoring them like they were. It's just today, it felt like too much. Thank you for supporting me. It's way better that I go off here than on him at this point. His mom just died a couple weeks ago.