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  • #195539
    Amber
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    Hey everyone,

    I’ve been on here before but only to give advice. I am now in need of some advice/guidance from everyone here 🙂

    I am a 31 year old female and I am having issues with my sister who is 33 years old. We are pretty close even though she is very difficult to deal with. She can be sometimes be very stubborn and can get angry pretty easily. Anyways, I made the decision to move an hour away from my current residence to move in with my boyfriend of about… almost 2 years. We’ve been having a long distance relationship and we finally made the decision of who should move. It ended up being me because it was almost impossible for him to move to my residence. I am VERY happy with the decision and so is  my 5 year old son. My 5 year old will continue to see his father and there is no issues on that end, his father gave us his blessing. Well………. my sister is upset with me over my decision and has decided to stop talking to me. She doesn’t feel it’s in the best interest of me and my son even though in my opinion, it is. She likes my boyfriend so there is no issues on that end. She has a 4 year old son who my son is very close to. They are cousins and are pretty close to each other.

    She is making me feel terrible and that I made a bad decision even though I know in my heart I haven’t. I am keeping the same job but my employer told me I can work from my house which is IDEAL! I can have more freedom to pick up my son from school and I can save money too by not having to commute anywhere. What are your thoughts? Why would she be so angry with me and why would she completely stop talking to me over this?

    I am a GREAT sister……. I pick her son up from school if needed, I help her with her other daughter, I take her kids to dr’s appts if I can, I do pretty much above and beyond and I help in any which way I can.

    #195599
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Amber:

    Of course I can’t tell why your sister is angry with you over you moving in with your boyfriend. I can only guess, but better I can ask you as I search for her reason:

    once you move an hour away, will you not be able to pick up her son from school and take her kids to doctor’s appointments like you did living closer to her?

    anita

    #195609
    Amber
    Participant

    Hi Anita,

    It’s on occasion if her boyfriend can’t get her son that I will get him every now and then. If I could guess I’d say once every 2 months or so I’m needed for something such as that. Twice this year I’ve had to get her daughter from school because no one was available and drop her home. Monday – Friday we almost never hang out or see each other. On the weekends it depends if I have school or something else going on as to whether or not we will hang out for the day together. With that being said I still need MY own personal family time which I a lot of times put their needs aside in order to spend time with my sister and mother.

    My son and her son do go to VPK together so they do see each other every day almost. I’m thinking that’s what the issue is…. she is afraid that when my son leaves the school her son will be alone possibly? Just trying to figure out what the issue is and if I am wrong. She won’t speak to me and it’s been almost a week.

    #195613
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Amber:

    You wrote: “She (your sister) doesn’t feel it’s in the best interest of me and my son”- if that was the reason she withdrew from you, because she was concerned about your well being and your son’s well being, then she would have told you why she believes your moving in with your boyfriend, an hour away, will hurt you and your son.

    If she didn’t tell you, I am doubting that was her motivation of no longer talking to you.

    Did she?

    Also, is she married, living with the father of her children?

    anita

    #195617
    Amber
    Participant

    She wrote me a very long text stating her “concerns” which was mainly that her son and my son won’t be close anymore and that her and I will drift apart. I told her my reasons for moving and why I am having to vs my boyfriend moving. She seemed to understand then the next day I texted her, no response, the next day, no response. I texted her again and asked what the issue was. No response. I only know that she doesn’t feel it’s in the best interest of me and my son because her boyfriend told me.

    She is getting married March 10th actually and I am the person marrying them, how crazy is that. She is living with her soon to be husband, their son and her other daughter from a different man.

    #195621
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Amber:

    Maybe you didn’t hear from her partly because she is very busy and otherwise occupied, soon to be getting married and having to deal perhaps with the father of her two children, maybe something came up with him. Maybe she has relationship problems with her soon to be husband, I don’t know.

    If she is concerned about the two of you not being close anymore, and she is deliberately keeping a no contact distance from you, then she is more motivated to stay close with you her way than she is motivated to stay close with you.

    Perhaps she is a my-way-or-the-highway kind of person. Is she?

    anita

    #195623
    Amber
    Participant

    That is very true. That’s how I’m perceiving it. It seems more as if she’s mad in more of a selfish manner than being the supportive sister that I truly deserve. I was in very very bad abuse marriage for 8 years of my life (together with him a total of 12 years). I am now happy and healthy and I am in a very loving relationship. I do know that it is best for me to move and for my son. My son needs stability and he adores my boyfriend and my boyfriends son. We are very happy with the decision and almoste very one else is except for my sister. She just reacted in a way that really shocks and hurts me.

    She is a my way or the highway type person………. that is true. I’ve always had to re-arrange my life/schedule to fit hers. That’s been a never ending thing. IF for example you cannot make a family event or she needs something from me at that exact moment and I have other plans or for whatever reason can’t attend, she reacts with anger and will instantly cut me out and make passive aggressive comments to me.

    I’ve helped her with her wedding thus far, I honestly don’t think it’s the stress of the wedding. Everything is done… we are just waiting on the day to come at this time.

    #195627
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Amber:

    I think that the answer to your question is clear

    “Why would she be so angry with me and why would she completely stop talking to me over this?”-

    because she wants you to suffer as a result of her withdrawal from your life. As a result of your suffering, she hopes that you will do what it takes to get her back into your life, and that is to not move with your boyfriend farther away.

    She is waiting for you to do it her way. That is her MO then, probably not only with you.

    anita

    #195629
    Amber
    Participant

    Thank you, that makes sense truthfully. It’s hard to come to the realization that she’s that type of person because she really doesn’t appear to be. She attends church 2x a week, she is very family oriented BUT looking back at everything it’s all on her terms and no one elses. I’m mourning the loss of my sister but it honestly might not be a bad thing. She may have been a supportive person but she was also toxic in her own ways. I’m the type to forgive and forget… so if she comes around, I’m sure I will accept her but it won’t be the same. I guess I know now that she can be selfish and at times a toxic person. If she loved me and wanted to be my sister, she wouldn’t be acting this way and shutting me out so easily over a life decision I made.

    #195639
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear Amber:

    I suppose she is quite predictable: you can expect her to be loving when she is okay with your choices and to withdraw with anger when she is not okay with your choices. It is a very conditional love- she loves you if you live her way and only for as long as you do.

    You wrote that you are “the type to forgive and forget”- better not forget lesson learned and be surprised and hurt the next time she withdraws and the next. Better remember what needs to be remembered so to protect yourself from hurts of all kinds.

    Your sister already has a life that she can and should live her way, and that is her own life. She has no right to yours.

    anita

    #195647
    Amber
    Participant

    Thank you so much! I appreciate it. You really did help put things in perspective a little more.

    I think with me being an hour away from her it will help me not forget that her relationship with me is one-sided.

    #195651
    Anonymous
    Guest

    You are very welcome, Amber. Anytime.

    anita

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