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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 758788" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>What great and enlightening advice JayPee! That is so helpful to read for any of us.</p><p></p><p>Thanks Newstart, I wish things were different with my only sister but they are not. I think that because my sister was put into foster care (different father than me and she is 19 years my senior) and she was abused and felt unwanted, she emotionally shut down. So very sad.</p><p></p><p>I did not have a good childhood either (alcoholic mother, father was a wife beater but a good dad - sounds weird I know) however I sought counseling and God to get me through my young adulthood. Both my parents were deceased by the time I was 17-1/2 years old.</p><p></p><p>My sister was never there for me emotionally and I don't hold that against her. I wish she had gotten help but I get it. In fact, I had to beg her for her "sisterhood" at one point in time. It was always me trying to keep her in my life for the most part.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is we all handle things differently but we cannot and must not let these bad things that happen to us define us nor set us up for an unhappy life. We have to be stronger than that. I have been in the "pursuit of happiness" my entire life and I will continue to do that until the day I am no longer on this earth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 758788, member: 15032"] What great and enlightening advice JayPee! That is so helpful to read for any of us. Thanks Newstart, I wish things were different with my only sister but they are not. I think that because my sister was put into foster care (different father than me and she is 19 years my senior) and she was abused and felt unwanted, she emotionally shut down. So very sad. I did not have a good childhood either (alcoholic mother, father was a wife beater but a good dad - sounds weird I know) however I sought counseling and God to get me through my young adulthood. Both my parents were deceased by the time I was 17-1/2 years old. My sister was never there for me emotionally and I don't hold that against her. I wish she had gotten help but I get it. In fact, I had to beg her for her "sisterhood" at one point in time. It was always me trying to keep her in my life for the most part. The bottom line is we all handle things differently but we cannot and must not let these bad things that happen to us define us nor set us up for an unhappy life. We have to be stronger than that. I have been in the "pursuit of happiness" my entire life and I will continue to do that until the day I am no longer on this earth. [/QUOTE]
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