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To remember the reasons I don't like my sister whenever I meet her?

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toconclude · 08/02/2015 11:27

Yesterday at my mum's: nagging her because she has a small pile of unopened items in a cupboard and how completely terrible she hasn't used or sold them; snapping at me "it's not funny" when I started to giggle with mum at how long mum had had some of those items; proclaiming that there is only one proper way to store Christmas decs and that is in a labelled box in the attic like she does and how can anyone bear to do it another way; telling me firmly "those are not boy's sheets" (pink - mum was offloading some and ASD son needs more sheets - I would give him the option anyway) and implying my son is bisexual [and happily with a male partner atm] because I didn't gender police him firmly enough as a child like she does with her butch footie playing sons and girly daughter dedicated to clothes and hair; banging on about our late grandmother (who died in 1982, btw) was "small minded, bigoted and lazy" - because she didn't bother much with housework having grown up with a mother with OCD who literally never left the house because she spent every waking hour cleaning); slipping in how she is out at work 13 hours a day so "doesn't have time" to organise a family holiday (MIL does it for her apparently) - yeah, I'm out nearly as much - and more of it working not travelling, that's life.
Cherry on the cake, I mentioned an acquaintance who has major alcohol problems [after a trauma whose details I couldn't mention for privacy reasons but was horrible and repeated] "what trauma's so great she can't just get over it".
Must be lovely to be perfect and able to tell everyone else how to run their lives. I still recall her sententiously lecturing me on how to handle my autistic son, who she sees perhaps twice a year, because I clearly so badly needed her advice and could only see his disability.
Yes, yes, I'm probably horrible myself for moaning about it here, but ARGHHHHHH.

Get some self-awareness at least, why don't you?

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FryOneFatManic · 08/02/2015 11:35

She sounds very bitchy, I'd be limiting the time I spent in the company of someone like that, relative or not.

toconclude · 08/02/2015 11:39

I hardly see her, there are reasons. But I like to think that people can change...or at least see that change is needed.

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Mintyy · 08/02/2015 11:39

Family eh? There's no rule that says you have to like them or even love them. She sounds like no kind of fun and rather bullying. Do you ever just say "oh sis why do you have to be so fucking miserable all the time?" or would that not go down well? Grin

Quitethewoodsman · 08/02/2015 11:40

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ApocalypseThen · 08/02/2015 11:47

Can I borrow her? I've got a few things that need to be sorted by a gold standard expert while I pop out for a bit. She can let herself out.

toconclude · 08/02/2015 11:48

Mintyy: lead balloon. She's just stating facts, don't you know.

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toconclude · 08/02/2015 11:49

also if I try and answer back, mum shushes me. She doesn't like conflict.

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toconclude · 08/02/2015 11:50

Apocalypse: Grin

wonderful, put a big smile on my face.

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