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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think both my siblings and I would say our mom favors someone else.  She's brilliant at bragging on you to others but being dismissive and passive-aggressive to your face.  All the other kids are great it's too bad you don't stack up -- I'm not sure if she does it deliberately or not, but we're all onto her.  We joke we're all her least favorites when we're there and her favorite when we're not.[/quote]

Same situation in my family.  For a long time, my sisters resented the hell out of me because my mom spent all her time with them bragging on me while putting them down but then they found out how she did the same thing to me - put me down constantly while talking about how great my sisters were doing.  I think it's my mom's (admittedly F-ed up) way of trying to keep us all connected but it just drove us apart for years.  There is still resentment that boils up (mostly from my eldest sister - even though she gets the most hands on help from my mom by far, she also gets the most "Oh but Larla is doing soooooo well, don't you wish you had her job/life/husband/etc?") but we're learning to deal with it better and better as time goes on.[/quote]

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