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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like mental health issues. I think it’s complicated. If your child can’t move on with life, you don’t want to see them on the street. And it’s not like you can control an adult.

I have a seriously mentally teen. I often wonder if I’m going to be in these parents shoes. [/quote]

I can understand that as one of my kids has SN. However, in both cases they can hold down good jobs.[/quote]

OP again...thinking about this some more I think you are on to something. While in our sister's case there is no risk of homelessness in that they hold down good jobs, I do think in both cases there is some depression. They both feel the world owes them and we both find our sister's take out their misery on us and have distorted views about our lives. They think being married is always easy. They see our kids behave well and don't know the contortions we go through to have them be good during gatherings. They feel we owe them something because our life is a certain way and theirs isn't. Frankly I am exhausted and have dealt with her being nasty my whole life. I don't cater. For some reason she expects nothing of our brother, with whom I am closer. Parents don't dote on him either, but they do have lighter expectations for him than for me because they are sexist and think you are lucky if a boy does anything for you rather than abandoning you for his wife's family.[/quote]

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