I have been dealing with my husband's x-wife and her family being invited to EVERY family party on my husband's side. I have been going to these events (birthday parties, graduations, weddings, etc) for nieces and nephews for over 9 years. The last straw was this past June... we attended a nephews wedding and they had a picture display board. On that board was two pictures of the x-wife with my husband's family and not ONE of me or my husband. I decided at that point that unless it had to do directly with my step-children, I would not attend any events EVER.