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[quote=Anonymous]Wow, didn’t know there was a word for this.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/09/im-tired-dealing-my-sisters-complaints/597202/

My sister is like this, every time she talks to me it’s a chance for her to rail against the world and list her litany or complaints (she has a host of mental health problems and legitimacy has a hard life, so it’s a deep well she draws from). But I hear about all sorts of complaints, from rising prices to her computer being slow.

I want to maintain a relationship with her, but I am exhausted every time we talk. I’m going to try what this article suggests, where you overreact to their complaint “what? The iPhone update took an hour, that is unacceptable and they should give you a new phone onstead”. I’m not sure I can pull it off without sarcasm and I strongly suspect the mirroring that the article alludes to will not work and I have to just enforce boundaries when I talk.

Has anyone ever had luck with breaking a help-refusing complainer in their life? [/quote]

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