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[quote=Anonymous]OP I will tell you my elderly mother was flippant with offering stuff to me years ago. I have a difficult sibling she did not get along with and I just made it clear it had to be fine with her to because I did not want to end up at war with her.

Mom was going to leave me more in the will and I made it clear it must be equal because while I am not close with my sibling and did not want a relationship with her, I did not want to anything that felt wrong.

Fast forward to my parents declining. Sibling swoops in and starts turning on the charm with them. I always tried to keep her posted on hospital stays and concerns. Sister dad passed I expressed concern to her about mom's growing paranoia and unwillingness to get evaluated. She told paranoid mom I was plotting against her, set off a serious of abusive episodes that resulted in me having to distance myself and get a geriatric social worker to check on mom and coordinate things. Mom is funding siblings entire lifestyle and more. I was afraid to take an old postcard thinking it could set her off, meanwhile she torched my relationship with my mother and is living large.

So I can relate, but I always knew she would be trouble and I would have open conversations with my parents about how they expected things to work with POA etc. They had a lot of magical thinking and when I pushed they refused to discuss.[/quote]

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