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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 492121" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Dash I feel your pain. I always felt that family was the safe place where you should be able to go for comfort and support. We should be able to confide in them about our difficult children and know they will still support and love and treat our difficult children like all other members of the family. It hurts to see our difficult children treated differently and I now understand how families get torn apart by this stuff. Your difficult child acted appropriately and that's what matters. Your sister has to know how her words hurt you. If she put herself in your position she would be hurt too.</p><p></p><p>My sister and I were very close until last Christmas when she decided to go against my wishes that we not have alcohol on christmas eve because difficult child had recently been released from rehab. Of course I confided in her throughtout the years so she decided to take it upon herself to show difficult child that she didn't care about her struggles and it was more important for her family to do their normal thing and not be inconvenienced. And of course my dad went along with it because he has always pitted one of his offspring against the other. After a few hurtful conversations over the next couple weeks, we have not spoken to each other in a year. Her kids are perfect and she has the perfect life. She doesn't understand gfgness. Through it all and watching how my dad handled the whole thing I have realized how important it is to treat both my girls the same way. He has always treated one of us differently depending on who was in the barrel at the time. </p><p></p><p>I'm sorry your sister was not more supportive. </p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 492121, member: 59"] Dash I feel your pain. I always felt that family was the safe place where you should be able to go for comfort and support. We should be able to confide in them about our difficult children and know they will still support and love and treat our difficult children like all other members of the family. It hurts to see our difficult children treated differently and I now understand how families get torn apart by this stuff. Your difficult child acted appropriately and that's what matters. Your sister has to know how her words hurt you. If she put herself in your position she would be hurt too. My sister and I were very close until last Christmas when she decided to go against my wishes that we not have alcohol on christmas eve because difficult child had recently been released from rehab. Of course I confided in her throughtout the years so she decided to take it upon herself to show difficult child that she didn't care about her struggles and it was more important for her family to do their normal thing and not be inconvenienced. And of course my dad went along with it because he has always pitted one of his offspring against the other. After a few hurtful conversations over the next couple weeks, we have not spoken to each other in a year. Her kids are perfect and she has the perfect life. She doesn't understand gfgness. Through it all and watching how my dad handled the whole thing I have realized how important it is to treat both my girls the same way. He has always treated one of us differently depending on who was in the barrel at the time. I'm sorry your sister was not more supportive. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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