How to respond to pushy sibling

[Anonymous]

“Not all opinions need to be shared.”

[Anonymous]

I have a sibling similar to this. I would not be in a book club with my sibling, and I no longer share any news with my sibling. I make myself as boring as possible so they move on to someone else.

[Anonymous]

Yuck - this would drive me crazy and I for sure would have been fairly direct about it.

You have to decide what level of directness you're comfortable with, and what it's worth to you.

"You do you..." walk away
"Thx, I've got it" walk away
"We have different kids, this is what works best for Janie" walk away
"I hope you trust that I will make the decisions that I know to be best for me." walk away
"I feel questioned/bossed around/condescended to when you give me advice that I clearly don't want or agree with. I'd like you to stop doing that."
"I'm going to drop out of book club, and distance myself for a while. You seem unable to accept that my choices may be different from yours."
"You are not getting the message. I'm not interested in spending time with you until you stop telling me what to do and show some respect for my decisions. "
etc...